Issue 103, 2014
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RSC Advances

Formation of a charge transfer complex within a hydrophobic cavity in DNA†

Tadao Takada,*ab   Yumiko Otsuka,a   Mitsunobu Nakamuraab  and  Kazushige Yamana*ab  

* Corresponding authors

a Department of Materials Science and Chemistry, University of Hyogo, 2167 Shosha, Himeji, Hyogo 671-2280, Japan
E-mail: takada@eng.u-hyogo.ac.jp, yamana@eng.u-hyogo.ac.jp

b Molecular Nanotechnology Research Center, University of Hyogo, 2167 Shosha, Himeji, Hyogo 671-2280, Japan

Abstract

We now show that a hydrophobic cavity created within the DNA can work as a scaffold to form a charge transfer (CT) complex composed of naphthalenediimide (NDI) and dialkoxynaphthalene (DAN) derivatives. The formation of the CT complex resulted in stabilization of the duplex structure through stacking interaction, which was comparable to the natural base pairs.

Graphical abstract: Formation of a charge transfer complex within a hydrophobic cavity in DNA

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DOI
https://doi.org/10.1039/C4RA11761A
Article type
Communication
Submitted
04 Oct 2014
Accepted
03 Nov 2014
First published
10 Nov 2014

RSC Adv., 2014,4, 59440-59443

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Formation of a charge transfer complex within a hydrophobic cavity in DNA

T. Takada, Y. Otsuka, M. Nakamura and K. Yamana, RSC Adv., 2014, 4, 59440 DOI: 10.1039/C4RA11761A

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