Ru(TAP)2(dppz)]2+: a DNA intercalating complex, which luminesces strongly in water and undergoes photo-induced proton-coupled electron transfer with guanosine-5'-monophosphate |
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Authors: | Ortmans Isabelle Elias Benjamin Kelly John M Moucheron Cécile Kirsch-DeMesmaeker Andrée |
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Affiliation: | Service de Chimie Organique et Photochimie, CP 160/08, Université Libre de Bruxelles, 50 Avenue F. D. Roosevelt, B-1050 Bruxelles, Belgium. |
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Abstract: | The lowest excited state of [Ru(TAP)2(dppz)]2+ (TAP = 1,4,5,8-tetraazaphenanthrene, dppz = dipyrido[3,2-a:2',3'-c]phenazine) 1 is strongly luminescent, even in water, and very oxidizing. Therefore it is able to oxidise not only guanosine-5'-monophosphate (GMP), as demonstrated by laser flash photolysis, but also guanine-containing polynucleotides such as calf thymus DNA and [poly(dG-dC)]2. The luminescence quenching was found to be faster in H2O than in D2O, as is the back reaction, indicating that both processes probably proceed by proton-coupled electron transfer. These properties, that are controlled by the triplet MLCT state in which the charge has been transferred from the Ru to a TAP ligand, contrast with those of the well known [Ru(phen)2(dppz)]2+ 2. |
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