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Inhibiting effect of beta-cyclodextrin on thymine dimerization photosensitized by para-aminobenzoic acid
Maria Nowakowska1, Mirosław Grebosz, Mirosława Smoluch
1Faculty of Chemistry, Jagiellonian University, Kraków, Poland. nowakows@chemia.uj.edu.pl
Photochemistry and Photobiology
|March 9, 2002
Abstract:
Beta-cyclodextrin can act as an efficient inhibitor of the photosensitized dimerization of thymine by para-aminobenzoic acid (PABA) in aqueous solution. This can be explained by considering the formation of an inclusion complex between PABA and beta-cyclodextrin.