ISSN 1017-2548(Print)
ISSN 2234-8530(Online)
Volume 38, Number 6
JKCSEZ 38(6)
December 20, 1994 

Molecular orbital calculations suggest that an interaction between the psoralen derivatives of excite state and the thymine of ground state is dicussed in terms of their differing abilities to molecular complex. PM3-CI-UHF indicates that photocycloadducts across the C3-C4 and C4'-C5' double bonds of the methylpsoralen and hydroxypsoralen with thymine C5-C6 double bonds were deduced to be formed by their preferable frontier orbital interactions. The electronic properties of psoralen derivatives in the ground and excited states correlate with this difference in structure-activity relationship.