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AUTHOR
Antoni Costa
Unsaturated carboxylic acid dienolates. Addition to substituted cyclohexanones. Inverted kinetic and thermodynamic stereoselectivities.
Abstract Addition of the lithium dienolate derived from crotonic acid to monosubstituted cyclohexanones occurs through the α and γ carbon atoms of the dienolate in the cold and on heating, respectively. For any regioselectivity, equatorial approach is found under kinetic conditions, but equilibration favours products from axial attack and selectivity may be inverted.
Binding Mode and Selectivity of a Scorpiand-Like Polyamine Ligand to Single- and Double-Stranded DNA and RNA: Metal- and pH-Driven Modulation
The interaction of a polyazacyclophane ligand having an ethylamine pendant arm functionalized with an anthryl group (L), with the single-stranded polynucleotides polyA, polyG, polyU, and polyC as well as with the double-stranded polynucleotides polyA-polyU, poly(dAT)(2), and poly(dGC)(2) has been followed by UV/Vis titration, steady state fluorescence spectroscopy, and thermal denaturation measurements. In the case of the single-stranded polynucleotides, the UV/Vis and fluorescence titrations permit to distinguish between sequences containing purine and pyrimidine bases. For the double-stranded polynucleotides the UV/Vis measurements show for all of them hypochromicity and bathochromic shif…