Premium
Controlled Stacking of 10 Transition‐Metal Ions inside a DNA Duplex
Author(s) -
Clever Guido H.,
Carell Thomas
Publication year - 2006
Publication title -
angewandte chemie international edition
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 5.831
H-Index - 550
eISSN - 1521-3773
pISSN - 1433-7851
DOI - 10.1002/anie.200603099
Subject(s) - stacking , metal ions in aqueous solution , ion , transition metal , crystallography , metal , dna , duplex (building) , base pair , spheres , chemistry , nanotechnology , materials science , physics , organic chemistry , catalysis , biochemistry , astronomy
A helical turn full of metal ions! The metal–salen base‐pair concept allows the incorporation of up to 10 transition‐metal ions into double strands of DNA (see picture; Mn gray spheres, C gray, N blue, P orange, O red). The crosslinking provided by the metal–salen complexes conveys a high stability to the self‐assembled systems.