Electrochemically active threading intercalator with high double stranded DNA selectivity

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Shigeori Takenaka, Yoshihiro Uto, Hideki Saita, Makoto Yokoyama, Hiroki Kondo and W. David Wilson


Abstract

A naphthalene diimide threading intercalator carrying ferrocenyl moieties as its termini can discriminate double stranded DNA from single stranded counterparts owing to a difference in their dissociation rates.


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