Self-Complementary Metal Complexes Containing a DNA Base Pair

✍ Scribed by Clayton Price; Benjamin R. Horrocks; Annabelle Mayeux; Mark R. J. Elsegood; William Clegg; Andrew Houlton

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 2002
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 99 KB
• Volume: 114
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0044-8249
• DOI: 10.1002/1521-3757(20020315)114:6<1089::aid-ange1089>3.0.co;2-i

✦ Synopsis

DNA-type interactions such as hydrogen bonding and aromatic stacking can be used to control the molecular assembly of synthetic compounds in solution and in the solid state. [1] As nucleobases can bind metal ions, base-pairing interactions can be used directly in their complexes. [2] However, in some instances prediction of the resulting assembly is difficult because certain key hydrogen-bond acceptor sites are also preferred for metal-ion binding. This is especially true for the adenine ± thymine (AT) pair, in which there are numerous possibilities for interactions which involve two hydrogen bonds (for example, A