121st General Meeting of the KCS

Type Poster Presentation
Area Organic Chemistry
Room No. Event Hall
Time 4월 19일 (목요일) 11:00~12:30
Code ORGN.P-446
Subject Synthesis of Light- Emitting Self-Assembled PNA Dimer Containing Modified Cytosine
Authors KEUN HO CHUN*, SOJEONG MIN
Chemistry, Soongsil University, Korea
Abstract

Recently Israel researchers have found that a PNA dimer forms a specific quaternary structure by self-replication of bases at a specific pH and exhibits a unique fluorescence property, which can be used as an OLED device. This result is significant in that PNA has a new application for an electronic material in addition to the biological field. To further investigate the applicability of PNA as an electronic material, we tried to make a PNA dimer with a modified cytosine base (C*). The C* was designed to have strong complementary bonds by G-clamp formation. Therefore, we aimed to investigate the effect of modified cytosine on the self-replication pattern and fluorescence properties. For this purpose, we needed to make C*G and GC* PNA dimers. However, the synthesis of di-PNA containing modified cytosine required a quite different synthetic strategy than the conventional PNA synthesis method in order to minimize the acyl migration and improve the yield of coupling process between PNA monomers. We found MMTr N-terminal protection was the best to minimize the acyl migration side reaction. Adding the 2nd base later after attaching the PNA unit first led to a significant improvement in the yield, and finally the desired PNA dimer C*G and GC* could be synthesized effectively.

E-mail kchun@ssu.ac.kr