Ruthenium polypyridyl complexes; their interaction with DNA and their role as sensitisers for its photocleavage
- 1 January 1987
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) in Journal of the Chemical Society, Chemical Communications
- No. 24,p. 1821-1823
- https://doi.org/10.1039/c39870001821
Abstract
The excited state of the 1,4,5,8-tetra-azaphenanthrene complex, [Ru(TAP)3]2+, which unlike [Ru(phen)3]2+(phen = 1,10-phenanthroline) or [Ru(bipy)3]2+(bipy = 2,2′-bipyridyl) is strongly quenched upon binding to poly[d(G–C)], is found to be much more effective than either [Ru(phen)3]2+ or [Ru(bipy)3]2+ in causing cleavage of the DNA backbone.Keywords
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