(±)-
anti-Dibenzo[
a,l]pyrene-11,12-dihydrodiol 13,14-epoxide {(±)-
anti-DB[
a,
l]PDE} was reacted with deoxyguanosine (dG) in dimethylformamide at 100
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C for 30 min, and two sets ofadducts were isolated: a mixture of (±)-
anti-
cis- & -
trans-N
2dG (43%) and a mixture of (±)-
anti-
cis- & -
trans-N7Gua (45%). Both are mixtures of four stereoisomers that cannot beseparated by HPLC. Similarly, (±)-
syn-DB[
a,
l]PDE was reacted with dG under the sameconditions, and (±)-
syn-
cis- & -
trans-N
2dG (38%) and (±)-
syn-
cis- & -
trans-N7Gua (59%) wereobtained. The structures of the adducts were determined by a combination of NMR and fastatom bombardment mass spectrometry. By reacting (-)-
anti-DB[
a,
l]PDE or (+)-
syn-DB[
a,
l]PDE with dG under the same conditions, however, optically pure N
2dG and N7Gua isomerswere obtained: (-)-
anti-
cis-N
2dG (12%), (-)-
anti-
trans-N
2dG (17%), (-)-
anti-
trans-N7Gua(43%), (+)-
syn-
cis-N
2dG (7%), (+)-
syn-
trans-N
2dG (3%), (+)-
syn-
cis-N7Gua (36%), and (+)-
syn-
trans-N7Gua (22%). The structures of the optically pure adducts were assigned by NMR.
syn-and
anti-DB[
a,
l]PDE-N
2dG adducts can be distinguished by fluorescence line-narrowingspectroscopy (FLNS). Moreover, distinction between
cis- and
trans-stereochemistry of theadducts is also straightforward by FLNS, because the FLN spectra for the four DB[
a,
l]PDE-N
2dG adducts,
anti-
cis,
anti-
trans,
syn-
cis, and
syn-
trans, are spectroscopically unique.