Study of Charge-transfer Interaction in Biomolecules
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1981
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Journal of the Chemical Society : Faraday Transaction - I. The Chemical Society, London. 1981, 77 (06)
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The interaction of the antibiotic drugs tetracycline and oxytetracycline with purines, pyrimidines and amino acids were studied spectrophotometrically in water, ethylene glycol and propylene glycol. In each case a new absorption band was located and denoted as a charge-transfer band. The formation constants for the charge-transfer complexes were determined using Benesi–Hildebrand's method followed by an iterative procedure. Different linear plots for hv against the highest filled π-molecular orbital of the donors (purines, pyrimidines and amino acids) were obtained indicating different stabilization energies for each system.
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Chemistry, Charge-transfer interactions, Biomolecules, Journal of the Chemical Society : Faraday Transaction - I