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3-Methylation alters excited state decay in photoionised uracil

PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY CHEMICAL PHYSICS(2022)

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UV and VUV-induced processes in DNA/RNA nucleobases are central to understand photo-damaging and photo-protecting mechanisms in our genetic material. Here we model the events following photoionisation and electronic excitation in uracil, methylated in the 1 ' and 3 ' positions, using the correlated XMS-CASPT2 method. We compare our results against those for uracil and 5-methyl-uracil (thymine) previously published. We find 3-methylation, an epigenetic modification in non-negligible amounts, shows the largest differences in photoionised decay of all three derivatives studied compared to uracil itself. At the S-0 minimum, 3-methyl-uracil (3mUra) shows almost degenerate excited cation states. Upon populating the cation manifold, a crossing is predicted featuring different topography compared to other methylated uracil species in this study. We find an effective 3-state conical intersection accessible for 3mUra(+), which points towards an additional pathway for radiationless decay. 3-Methylation reduces the potential energy barrier mediating decay to the cation ground state, making it vanish and leading to a pathway that we expect will contribute to the fastest radiationless decay amongst all methylated uracil species studied to date. 1- and 5-methylation, on the other hand, give differences from uracil in detail only: ionisation potentials are slightly red-shifted and the potential energy barrier mediating decay to the cation ground state is small but almost unchanged. By comparing against CASSCF calculations, we establish XMS-CASPT2 is essential to correctly describe conical intersections for 3mUra(+). Our calculations show how a chemical modification that seems relatively small electronically can nevertheless have a significant impact on the behaviour of electronic excited states: a single methylation in the 3 ' position alters the behaviour of the RNA base uracil and appears to open an additional pathway for radiationless decay following ionisation and electronic excitation.
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uracil,state decay
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