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Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Wisconsin--Madison, 1966. / Typescript. Vita. eContent provider-neutral record in process. Description based on print version record. Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Idaho, 2005. / Also available online in PDF format. Abstract. "November 2005." Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, 1985. / Bibliography: p. 218-234.

The work described in this thesis was performed at the Physics Department, Rhodes University during 1958 and 1959 under the supervision of Professor J.A. Gledhill. Use was made of a vacuum ultra-violet spectrograph which had been constructed in the Physics Department (1.1) and modifications to be described were made to this instrument. The instrument was used for studying the effects of oxygen on the fluorescence excitation spectrum of Anthracene.

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DNA photosensitizers are compounds that are capable of binding in to DNA strands through groove binding, intercalation, or electrostatic interactions. Excitation of these agents by light generates reactive oxygen species which causes extensive photo-oxidative damage to genomic DNA. Physiological concentrations of NaCl and KCl are ~ 150 mM and 260 mM within the cell nucleus where DNA is contained. Unfortunately, the ability of most photosensitizers to bind to double-helical DNA is reduced and photocleavage yields are diminished as concentrations of salt increase. The aim of this project is to observe the photocleavage of pUC19 plasmid DNA induced by N1,N1-bis(9-anthrymethyl)triethylenetetraamine tetrahydrochloride (AL-VIII 23) 1 or N,N-dimethyl-N’-(9-methylanthracenyl)ethylenediamine (NMEA) 2 in presence of salt. Spectroscopic titrations and DNA melting assays were used to study binding modes and affinities of both dyes to the helix upon the addition of salt.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Johns Hopkins University. / "Reprinted from the Astrophysical journal, vol. XXV, no. 3, April 1907."

The fluorescence and absorption spectra of anthracene in the near ultra-violet were investigated in n-heptane, fluorene, biphenyl and n-hexane matrices at low temperature. The assignment of the excited electronic state as ‘Biu was confirmed. In the ground electronic state eight Qg and five b₃g, and in the 'Bᵢᵥ upper electronic state seven Qg and five b₃g fundamentals were assigned. It was deduced that the potential surfaces of the 'Ag and the 'Bᵢᵥ states were similar in shape as there was an approximate agreement between the values of corresponding fundamental vibrations in the two electronic states. The potential surfaces were unusually harmonic for a polyatomic molecule, at least along the normal co-ordinates available to this study. No evidence for the presence of anharmonicity was found in even the highest overtone (the third) measured, although several possible examples of Fermi resonance between vibrational modes were observed both in fluorescence and in absorption. The Fermi resonances were assigned primarily on the basis of intensity transfer between lines rather than line shifts. The presence of a weaker long-axis polarized transition ( 'B₂ᵥ- 'Ag ) in anthracene predicted by theory was not detected. The lowest energy electronic transition in fluorene was found to be polarized along the long axis of this molecule. / Science, Faculty of / Chemistry, Department of / Graduate