ISSN:
0030-4921
Keywords:
Chemistry
;
Analytical Chemistry and Spectroscopy
Source:
Wiley InterScience Backfile Collection 1832-2000
Topics:
Chemistry and Pharmacology
Notes:
The bianthraquinonic biological pigments luteoskyrin and rugulosin and five polyhydroxyanthraquinone derivatives are studied by carbon-13 NMR in DMSO solution. Peak assignment for the fourteen carbon atoms of these compounds is achieved by proton spin decoupling and by investigating the effect of ionisation of the hydroxyl groups upon the carbon chemical shifts. Carbon chemical shifts in the planar hydroxyanthraquinones can be rationalised in terms of conjugation and intramolecular hydrogen bonding. The latter is responsible for the relative acidity of the hydroxyl groups in the analogues, and for the different conformations proposed for luteoskyrin and rugulosin. Tautomeric equilibria occur in DMSO and water-DMSO solutions for the anionic species [LS]2- and [RG]2-. This can account for the binding of luteoskyrin and rugulosin to nucleic acids.
Additional Material:
9 Ill.
Type of Medium:
Electronic Resource
URL:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/mrc.1270071008
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