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Several polyfunctional coumarins and the corresponding quaternary ammo
niums, associated with a coplanar structure have been synthesized in o
rder to test the relationships between structure and photobiological a
ctivity. In vitro studies on their phototoxic effects in yeasts sugges
t that five of them are able to intercalate in DNA and to covalently p
hotobind to DNA.