Structure elucidation of the adducts formed by fjord resell dibenzo[a,l]pyrene-11,12-dihydrodiol 13,14-epoxides with deoxyguanosine

(+/-)-anti-Dibenzo[a,l]pyrene-11, 12-dihydrodiol 13,14-epoxide ((+/-)-anti- DB[a,l]PDE) was reacted with deoxyguanosine (dG) in dimethylformamide at 10 0 degrees C for 30 min, and two sets of adducts were isolated: a mixture of (+/-)-anti-cis- & -trans-N(2)dG (43%) and a mixture of (+/-)-anti-cis- & -t rans-N7Gua (45%). Both are mixtures of four stereoisomers that cannot be se parated by HPLC. Similarly, (+/-)-syn-DB[a,l]PDE was reacted with dG under the same conditions, and (+/-)-syn-cis- & -trans-N(2)dG (38%) and (+/-)-syn -cis- & -trans-N7Gua (59%) were obtained. The structures of the adducts wer e determined by a combination of NMR and fast atom bombardment mass spectro metry. By reacting (-)-anti-DB[a,l]PDE or (+)-syn-DB[a,l]PDE with dG under the same conditions, however, optically pure N(2)dG and N7Gua isomers were obtained: (-)-anti-cis-N(2)dG (12%), (-)-anti-trans-N(2)dG (17%), (-)-anfi- trans-N7Gua (43%), (+)-syn-cis-N(2)dG (7%), (+)-syn-trans-N(2)dG (3%), (+)- syn-cis-N7Gua (36%), and (+)-syn-trans-N7Gua (22%). The structures of the o ptically pure adducts were assigned by NMR. syn- and anti-DB[a,l]PDE -N(2)d G adducts can be distinguished by fluorescence line-narrowing spectroscopy (FLNS). Moreover, distinction between cis- and trans-stereochemistry of the adducts is also straightforward by FLNS, because the FLN spectra for the f our DB[a,l]PDE-N(2)dG adducts, anti-cis, anti-trans, syn-cis, and syn-trans , are spectroscopically unique.