Chemical Research in Chinese Universities ›› 1997, Vol. 13 ›› Issue (4): 283-288.

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Ruthenium Coordination Compounds with Polypyridines ——Interaction of Ruthenium Polypyridine Complexes with Calf Thymus DNA —An Example of Non intercalative Binding

YANG Guang1, WANG Lei1, WU Jian-zhong1, ZENG Tian-xian1, JI Liang-nian2   

  1. 1. Department of Chemistry, Zhongshan University, Guangzhou 510275;
    2. State Key Laboratory for OxaSynthesis and Selective Oxidation, Lanzhou Institution of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Lanzhou 730000
  • Received:1996-08-26 Online:1997-12-24 Published:2011-08-17
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    Supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China.

Abstract: Two new ruthenium polypyridine complexes, L2RuL'2+ (L represents 2,2'-bipyridine(bpy) or 1,10-phenanthroline(phen); L' represents Schiff base derived from 4,5-diazafluoren-9-one(AFO) and n-propylamine) have been prepared and characterized by means of elementary analyses, electronic absorption and IR spectra. The binding of the complexes to calf thymus DNA has been investigated via absorption, emission spectrometry, emission quenching, equilibrium dialysis and circular dichroism spectrometry. The experimental results show that these two complexes bind to calf thymus DNA by electrostatic mode and by non-ntercalative binding mode respectively.

Key words: Ruthenium, Polypyridine, Calf thymus DNA