Inverting the Charges of Natural Nucleobase Quartets: A Planar Platinum–Purine Quartet with Pronounced Sulfate Affinity

M. Roitzsch, Bernhard Lippert

Angewandte Chemie International Edition · 2005 · 47 citations · 21 references

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Abstract

Variations on nature: Coordinative metal–ligand bonds instead of cyclic hydrogen bonds, an anion (sulfate) in the center rather than a cation, and an overall positive charge instead of a negative one are the major differences between the artificial platinum–purine quartet 2 (left) and the naturally occurring guanine quartet G4 (right).

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