TY - JOUR AU - Szolomájer, János AU - Paragi, Gábor AU - Batta, Gyula AU - C, Fonseca Guerra AU - F M, Bickelhaupt AU - Kele, Zoltán AU - Pádár, Petra AU - Kupihár, Zoltán AU - Kovács, Lajos TI - 3-Substituted xanthines as promising candidates for quadruplex formation: computational, synthetic and analytical studies JF - NEW JOURNAL OF CHEMISTRY J2 - NEW J CHEM VL - 35 PY - 2011 IS - 2 SP - 476 EP - 482 PG - 7 SN - 1144-0546 DO - 10.1039/C0NJ00612B UR - https://m2.mtmt.hu/api/publication/1451049 ID - 1451049 AB - Our computational studies suggest that 3-substituted xanthines are good candidates for tetrad and quadruplex structures. 3-Methylxanthine (3MX) has been synthesized from 7-benzylxanthine, and the existence of tetrameric and octameric aggregates of 3MX with NH4+, Na+ and K+ ions in the gas phase (MS) and in DMSO-d6 solution (NMR) has been observed. The "internal" H-bonds (N1H - - - O6) are stronger than the "external" ones (N7H - - - O2) in these clusters (NMR). LA - English DB - MTMT ER -