Redox and fungicidal properties of phthalocyanine metal complexes as related to active oxygen.

Some chemical and fungicidal effects of 20 phthalocyanines of Co, Fe, Cu, and Al were studied. Under dark conditions, these complexes reduced nitroblue tetrazolium in the presence of KCN, accelerated the autoxidation of ascorbate or hydroquinone and decomposed hydrogen peroxide. In the later reaction, hydroxyl radical was generated as evidenced with the deoxyribose assay.

[Cobalt-corrin oligonucleotide derivatives as reagents for selective cleavage of nucleic acids].

Techniques for preparing catalytically active corrin complexes of cobalt with monofunctional e-carboxyl- and e-amino groups in a macroligand are suggested. Two methods of the covalent attachment of such Co-corrin complexes to the terminal 3'- and 5'-phosphate groups of oligodeoxyribonucleotides were studied: the introduction of the complex to the oligonucleotide after oligonucleotide synthesis in aqueous solution and in the course of automated solid-phase oligonucleotide synthesis. Introducing of the Co-corrin complex during solid-phase synthesis was more efficient.