Huber Robert, Fiebig Torsten, Wagenknecht Hans-Achim
Technical University of Munich, Institute for Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry, D-85747 Garching, Germany.
Chem Commun (Camb). 2003 Aug 7(15):1878-9. doi: 10.1039/b305732a.
The steady-state emission spectra of 5-(1-pyrenyl)-modified pyrimidine and 8-(1-pyrenyl)-modified purine nucleosides in water at different pH values provide important information about the acidity or basicity of photochemically generated DNA base radicals which are key intermediates in DNA-mediated charge transport processes.