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Contribution to the study of carcinogenicity of polycyclic aromatic-hydrocarbons and their azaanalogues Carcinogenesis in the excited triplet-state

J. Leška, G. Krčulová, and D. Loos

Department of Organic Chemistry, Faculty of Natural Sciences, Komenský University, CS-842 15 Bratislava

Abstract: The assumption that polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons occurring in the excited triplet states, which are generated by sensitization due to the triplet carbonyl compounds, are able to exhibit carcinogenic effect was investigated by constructing the correlation of experimental indices of carcinogenicity of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons with the energy of their lowest triplet and the component of the electron transition moment in the direction of the largest dimension of a molecule. The statistical characteristics as well as pattern recognition show that the carcinogenesis by polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons molecules in the excited triplet states is probable.

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Chemical Papers 40 (2) 257–269 (1986)