Studies of charge transfer interaction of nucleotides with proflavine

✍ Scribed by Molina Choudhury; Rama Basu

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1995
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 251 KB
• Volume: 85
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 1010-6030
• DOI: 10.1016/1010-6030(94)03888-2

✦ Synopsis

The interaction of several nucleosides with proflavine hemisulphate was investigated by absorption and fluorescence spectroscopy in solvents with different dielectric constants. In each case, the ground state charge transfer complex was formed (observed from the difference absorption spectra) and the formation constants were calculated using the Benesi-Hildebrand equation (H.A. Benesi and J.H. Hildebrand, Z Am. Chem. Soc., 71 (1949) 2703). Fluorescence spectroscopy ruled out the possibility of exeiplex formation as no new band was observed. However, static quenching occurred within a limited range of acceptor to donor concentration ratio. The formation constants calculated were found to be higher than those observed by absorption spectroscopy.