THE SPECIFICITY OF HYDROGEN BOND FORMATION BETWEEN DERIVATIVES OF NUCLEIC ACID BASES AND SOME ANALOGUES

1966 ◽  
Vol 44 (9) ◽  
pp. 1045-1050 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. Pitha ◽  
R. Norman Jones ◽  
P. Pithova

Hydrogen bonding between pairs of derivatives of the base constituents of nucleic acids and their analogues has been studied in chloroform solution by infrared spectrophotometry. The strongest interactions occur between derivatives of guanine and cytosine. The introduction of the additional ring nitrogen atom in the pharmacologically active 5-azacytosine and 6-azacytosine derivatives does not change the complexing behavior. The positions of the N—H stretching bands in the infared spectra indicate that these complexes have a structure similar to that of the complexes formed between the corresponding pairs of bases in the naturally occurring desoxyribonucleic acid chain.

1998 ◽  
Vol 53 (1) ◽  
pp. 101-109 ◽  
Author(s):  
Frank Hintermaier ◽  
Sylvia Helding ◽  
Leonid B. Volodarsky ◽  
Karlheinz Sünkel ◽  
Kurt Polbom ◽  
...  

2,5-Dihydroimidazoline-l-oxyl radicals I, II with imino substituents coordinate to Pd(II) and Pt(II) complexes with formation of the N,N chelate complexes 1-6. With oxygen containing substituents either monodentate N-coordination to give 8 or N ,O chelate formation to give 9 takes place, depending on the position of the oxygen atom relative to the ring nitrogen atom. With radicals III that also have the second ring nitrogen atom oxidized and the Rh(III) or Ir(III) complexes [Cp*MCl2]2 the O , O chelates 11 -13 could be obtained, while with Na2PdCl4 the heterocycle was destroyed with formation of a N,N chelate complex 10 of an α-nitrosooxime ligand. The orthopalladated 2,2,5,5 tetramethyl-4-phenyl-2,5-dihydroimidazoline-l-oxyl complex 7a reacts with several a-amino acidates under splitting of the dichloro bridge with formation of the C,N/N,O-bis-chelate complexes 7b-f. The molecular structures of 2 and 10 were determined by X-ray diffraction.


2014 ◽  
Vol 2014 ◽  
pp. 1-7 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ewa Pięta ◽  
Edyta Proniewicz ◽  
Bogdan Boduszek ◽  
Tomasz K. Olszewski ◽  
Younkyoo Kim ◽  
...  

The surface-enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) spectra of three aminophosphonate derivatives of pyridine: (diphenylphosphoryl)(pyridin-2-yl)methanol (α-Pyr), (diphenylphosphoryl)(pyridin-3-yl)methanol (β-Pyr), and (diphenylphosphoryl)(pyridin-4-yl)methanol (γ-Pyr) were measured after immobilization onto colloidal gold surface. Changes in the wavenumber, broadness, and enhancement between the corresponding Raman and SERS bands allowed to deduce orientation of theα-,β-, andγ-isomers (α-,β-, andγ-refer to the position of the substituent relative to the ring nitrogen atom) of aminophosphonate derivatives of pyridine on the gold surface. Briefly, it was demonstrated that theα-Pyr andβ-Pyr show the same mode of adsorption, whereas the adsorption process of theγ-Pyr isomer differs in this regard that pyridine assists in the interaction with the gold surface.


Biomolecules ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (4) ◽  
pp. 603
Author(s):  
Zinnia Shah ◽  
Umar Farooq Gohar ◽  
Iffat Jamshed ◽  
Aamir Mushtaq ◽  
Hamid Mukhtar ◽  
...  

Podophyllotoxin, along with its various derivatives and congeners are widely recognized as broad-spectrum pharmacologically active compounds. Etoposide, for instance, is the frontline chemotherapeutic drug used against various cancers due to its superior anticancer activity. It has recently been redeveloped for the purpose of treating cytokine storm in COVID-19 patients. Podophyllotoxin and its naturally occurring congeners have low bioavailability and almost all these initially discovered compounds cause systemic toxicity and development of drug resistance. Moreover, the production of synthetic derivatives that could suffice for the clinical limitations of these naturally occurring compounds is not economically feasible. These challenges demanded continuous devotions towards improving the druggability of these drugs and continue to seek structure-optimization strategies. The discovery of renewable sources including microbial origin for podophyllotoxin is another possible approach. This review focuses on the exigency of innovation and research required in the global R&D and pharmaceutical industry for podophyllotoxin and related compounds based on recent scientific findings and market predictions.


2015 ◽  
Vol 71 (4) ◽  
pp. 262-265 ◽  
Author(s):  
Subramanya Pingali ◽  
James P. Donahue ◽  
Florastina Payton-Stewart

Tetrahydroberberine (systematic name: 9,10-dimethoxy-5,8,13,13a-tetrahydro-6H-benzo[g][1,3]benzodioxolo[5,6-a]quinolizine), C20H21NO4, a widely distributed naturally occurring alkaloid, has been crystallized as a racemic mixture about an inversion center. A bent conformation of the molecule is observed, with an angle of 24.72 (5)° between the arene rings at the two ends of the reduced quinolizinium core. The intermolecular hydrogen bonds that play an apparent role in crystal packing are 1,3-benzodioxole –CH2...OCH3and –OCH3...OCH3interactions between neighboring molecules.


1987 ◽  
Vol 30 (4) ◽  
pp. 678-682 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dieter Binder ◽  
Otto Hromatka ◽  
Franz Geissler ◽  
Karl Schmied ◽  
Christian R. Noe ◽  
...  

1979 ◽  
Vol 10 (29) ◽  
Author(s):  
A. N. GRINEV ◽  
N. V. ARKHANGEL'SKAYA ◽  
G. YA. URETSKAYA ◽  
A. A. STOLYARCHUK ◽  
P. A. GALENKO-YAROSHEVSKII

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