Chiral peptide nucleic acids: a new family of ligands for metal ions

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Justyna Szyrwiel, Piotr Młynarz, Henryk Kozłowski and Maurizio Taddei


Abstract

The first studies on peptide nucleic acid co-ordination abilities towards Cu2+ ions indicated that when nucleobases were present in the amino acid residue side chain the interactions between the nucleic bases induced very effective metal-ion binding by the peptide backbone donor system.


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