Abstract

Photochemical reactions of thymine linked to hypoxanthine or imidazole by a trimethylene chain were studied in aqueous solution. Irradiation (λ = 254 nm) of thymine-hypoxanthine pair yielded two internal cycloadducts with azetidine and cyclobutane part structures. Sensitization and quenching experiments suggested that the excited singlet was the reactive state in the photo-cycloaddition reactions. Only cyclobutanes were isolated from irradiated (λ = 290 nm) solutions of thymine-imidazole pairs. Photocycloadditions were reversible upon irradiation at λ = 254 nm

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