• Applied Biological Chemistry
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• v.48 no.4
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• pp.326-330
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• 2005

In the catalytic hydrolysis of 2',3'-cAMP by the Cu(II) complexes of 2,9-(N,N-dimethylethylenediamino)-1,10-phenanthroline (A) and 2,9-(N,N-dimethylethylenediaminomethyl)-1,10-phenanthroline (B) that are designed as a new ligand molecule of artificial DNase, due to the four intramolecular H-bonds forming between amino groups of ligand molecule and phosphoryl group of 2',3'-cAMP. It is anticipated that Cu(II) complexes of (A) and (B) are able to promote a rate that is as much as seventy thousand times faster than the catalytic hydrolysis rate of 2',3'-cAMP by Cu(II) complexes of 2,9-dimethyl-o-phenanthroline.