Award Accounts The Chemical Society of Japan Award for Young Chemists for 2007

Asingle-molecule strategy using atomicforce m icroscopy has s mp ly yet robust yprobed an intercalation binding relatedspecific structural relaxation or double-strand elongation of pBR322 by takingadvantage of a new psoralen (7H-furo[3,2-g]chromen-7-one) derivative that cova-lentlybinds to DNA through a photo-chemical reaction.