In the scientific endeavor to understand the chemical origins of life, the photochemistry of the smallest life building blocks, nucleobases, has been a constant object of focus and intense research. Here, we report the results of the first theoretical study on the photo-properties of an 8-oxo-hypoxanthine molecule, the chromophore of 8-oxo-inosine, which is relevant to the recently proposed, prebiotically plausible synthetic routes to the formation of purine- and pyrimidine-nucleotides. With ab initio and semi-empirical OM2/MRCI quantum-chemistry calculations, we predict a strong photostability of the 8-oxo-hypoxanthine system and see the origin of this effect in ultrafast nonradiative relaxation through puckering of the 6-membered heterocyclic ring.
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