| Abstract: | Progress in dynamic study on the triplet excited states and radical ions of DNA and its components is reviewed. It has been found that acetone is the only effective sensitizer for the study of the triplet excited states of DNA components. The transient absorption spectrum of guanyl radical cation resulting from the interaction of triplet acetone and DNA was observed directly, and the original evidence for selective damage of DNA by excited photosensitizer was obtained for the first time, which offered a new pathway for obtaining the main transient species of selective damage of DNA by photonucleases and illustrating initial oxidation mechanism of DNA via electron transfer. |
