摘要:
Photophysical characteristics of N-substituted C5-C5'-linked dihydrothymine dimers (1a,b[meso], meso compounds of [5R,5'S]-bi-5,6-dihydrothymines; 1a,b[rac], racemic compounds of [5R, 5'R]-bi-5,6-dihydrothymines and [5S,5'S]-bi-5,6-dihydrothymines) in aqueous solution with varying contents of less-polar aprotic solvent such as tetrahydrofuran or dioxane have been investigated by UV-absorption, and steady-state and time-resolved fluorescence spectroscopies, Among the CS-CS'-Linked dimers, (5R,5'S)bi-5,6-dihydro-1-methylthymine (la[meso]) showed a redshifted weak UV-absorption band at 270-350 nm and excimer fluorescence emission at lambda (max) = 370 nm with a quantum yield (Phi (F)) of similar to0.1 in phosphate buffer (pH < 10) at 293 Ii, Racemic compound of 5,6-dihydro-1-methylthymine dimer (la[mc]), meso and racemic compounds of 5,6-dihydro-1,3-dimethylthymine dimers (Ib[meso] and Ib[rac]) in phosphate buffer were nonfluorescent under similar conditions. The W-absorption and fluorescence spectral characteristics of 1a[meso] in aqueous solution were interpreted in terms of intramolecular stacking interactions between the dihydropyrimidine chromophores leading to a preferential "closed-shell" conformation both in the ground state and the excited singlet state. In basic solutions at pH > pK(a) = 11.7, the fluorescence quantum yield of la[meso] decreased due to a dominant "open-shell" conformation resulting from the electrostatic repulsion between the deprotonated dihydrothymine chromophores of la[meso] in a dianion form.