DNA Binding and Unwinding by Self-Assembled Supramolecular Heterobimetallacycles

Anurag Mishra, Sambandam Ravikumar, Soon Ho Hong, Hyunuk Kim, Vaishali Vajpayee, HyeWoo Lee, Byungchan Ahn, Ming Wang, Peter J. Stang, Ki‐Whan Chi

Organometallics · 2011 · 63 citations · 35 references

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Abstract

Two new tetracationic hetero-bimetallacycles were prepared from a bis-pyridine amide ligand and metal (Pd and Pt) acceptors. We found that both self-assembled hetero-bimetallacycles bind and unwind supercoiled DNA as established by photophysical and gel electrophoresis analyses, respectively.

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