title: An azo-based PNA monomer: synthesis and spectroscopic study.
abstract: The full synthetic details and photospectroscopic characterization of a peptide nucleic acid (PNA) monomer suitable for Fmoc-based oligomerization chemistry that bears an azobenzene moiety as a base surrogate are reported. The monomer showed the ability to quench the fluorescence emission of fluorescein and pyrene luminophores and proved to be a competent Föster resonance energy transfer partner in a PNA-based molecular beacon.
authors: Department of Chemistry, The University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada.
authors: Mohamed E
authors: ME
authors: Moustafa
authors: Robert H E
authors: RH
authors: Hudson
mesh_terms: D001391:Azo Compounds / Q000737:chemistry*; D031541:Fluorescence Resonance Energy Transfer; D015394:Molecular Structure; D020135:Peptide Nucleic Acids / Q000138:chemical synthesis* / Q000737:chemistry*
chemical_list: D001391:Azo Compounds; D020135:Peptide Nucleic Acids; C009850:azobenzene