Highly efficient photoinduced DNA cleavage by naphthopyrone hydroperoxides

  • Zhi Fu Tao*
  • , Xuhong Qian
  • , Mingcai Fan
  • *Corresponding author for this work

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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 languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)1571-1574
Number of pages4
JournalBulletin of the Chemical Society of Japan
Volume72
Issue number7
DOIs
StatePublished - Jul 1999
Externally publishedYes

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