Abstract
Abstract8-azaguanine is a triazolopyrimidine nucleobase analog possessing potent antibacterial and antitumor activities, and it has been implicated as a lead molecule in cancer and malaria therapy. Its intrinsic fluorescence properties can be utilized for monitoring its interactions with biological polymers like proteins or nucleic acids. In order to better understand these interactions, it is important to know the tautomeric equilibrium of this compound. In this work, the tautomeric equilibrium of all natural neutral and anionic compound forms (except highly improbable imino-enol tautomers) as well as their methyl derivatives and ribosides was revealed by quantum chemistry methods. It was shown that, as expected, tautomers protonated at positions 1 and 9 dominate neutral forms both in gas phase and in aqueous solution. 8-azaguanines methylated at any position of the triazole ring are protonated at position 1. The computed vertical absorption and emission energies are in very good agreement with the experimental data. They confirm the validity of the assumption that replacing the proton with the methyl group does not significantly change the positions of absorption and fluorescence peaks.
Publisher
Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Subject
General Medicine,Biophysics
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