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  1. Sequential electron transfer governs the UV-induced self-repair of DNA photolesions

    Article • Chemical Science, January 2018, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Rafał Szabla, Dr Holger Kruse

  2. Water–chromophore electron transfer determines the photochemistry of cytosine and cytidine

    Article • Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, January 2017, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Rafał Szabla, Dr Holger Kruse

  3. A prebiotically plausible synthesis of pyrimidine β-ribonucleosides and their phosphate derivatives involving photoanomerization

    Article • Nature Chemistry, November 2016, Nature

    Rafał Szabla

  4. Comparative Assessment of Different RNA Tetranucleotides from the DFT-D3 and Force Field Perspective

    Article • The Journal of Physical Chemistry, October 2016, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Rafał Szabla, Dr Holger Kruse

  5. TiO2-catalyzed synthesis of sugars from formaldehyde in extraterrestrial impacts on the early Earth

    Article • Scientific Reports, March 2016, Nature

    Rafał Szabla

  6. Photorelaxation of imidazole and adenine via electron-driven proton transfer along H2O wires

    Article • Faraday Discussions, January 2016, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Rafał Szabla

  7. Prebiotic synthesis of nucleic acids and their building blocks at the atomic level – merging models and mechanisms from advanced computations and experiments

    Article • Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, January 2016, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Rafał Szabla

  8. Ultrafast excited-state dynamics of isocytosine

    Article • Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, January 2016, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Rafał Szabla

  9. Electron-Driven Proton Transfer Along H2O Wires Enables Photorelaxation of πσ* States in Chromophore–Water Clusters

    Article • The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters, April 2015, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Rafał Szabla

  10. Excited-state hydrogen atom abstraction initiates the photochemistry of β-2′-deoxycytidine

    Article • Chemical Science, January 2015, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Rafał Szabla

  11. Molecular Mechanism of Diaminomaleonitrile to Diaminofumaronitrile Photoisomerization: An Intermediate Step in the Prebiotic Formation of Purine Nucleobases

    Article • Chemistry - A European Journal, January 2014, Wiley

    Rafał Szabla

  12. Ab initio calculations elucidate the influence of water solution on the photostability of AICN

    Article • Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, January 2014, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Rafał Szabla

  13. Quantum chemistry explains the photorelaxation of a plausible precorsor of pyrimidine nucleotides

    Article • The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters, August 2013, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Rafał Szabla

  14. Theoretical studies of the mechanism of 2-aminooxazole formation under prebiotically plausible conditions

    Article • Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, January 2013, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Robert Góra, Rafał Szabla