Abstract
A variety of naphthopyrone hydroperoxides as novel photochemical DNA cleavers were synthesized and evaluated. Their photochemical DNA-cleaving abilities depend on skeleton arrangement of the naphthopyrone core and are much more efficient than those of the reported 1,8-naphthalenedicarboximide analog. The DNA-cleaving mechanism by these new hydroperoxides probably mainly involves hydroxyl radicals, indicating that naphthopyrone hydroperoxides may be able to serve as a new class of intercalating photo- Fenton reagents.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 1571-1574 |
| Number of pages | 4 |
| Journal | Bulletin of the Chemical Society of Japan |
| Volume | 72 |
| Issue number | 7 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - Jul 1999 |
| Externally published | Yes |