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Templated Synthesis of Highly Stable, Electroactive, and Dynamic Metal–DNA Branched Junctions
Author(s) -
Yang Hua,
Sleiman Hanadi F.
Publication year - 2008
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.200703741
Subject(s) - dna , metal , metalation , nanotechnology , materials science , crystallography , chemistry , chemical physics , stereochemistry , biochemistry , metallurgy
Templated metalation of DNA junctions allows incorporation of a range of transition metals into DNA assemblies. The resulting highly stable metal–DNA junctions can be assembled into dynamic multinuclear structures, with metal centers as their corners and DNA single strands as their sides. Ready and reversible structural switching of these assemblies with external agents (see picture) allows for control of geometry and metal–metal distances.