“…Several new conclusions are drawn regarding the (1) analytically and structurally interesting site/sequence specificity of the binding, (2) electronic excited state properties of free and bound PdP(4), (3) perturbation effects of intercalation and external binding on the porphyrin frontier (,*) MOs, and (4) orientation of bound PdP(4) in each of the three B-DNA systems. Our findings are based on a detailed analysis of MCD, CD, and optical (UV-visible) spectra measured in the analytically sensitive porphyrin Soret (B 0 ) band region (⑀ max ϳ 10 5 cm Ϫ1 M Ϫ1 ), in addition to insight gained from previous experimental (e.g., viscosity, [1][2][3][4][5][6] unwinding of supercoiled DNA, 3,6,7 footprinting, 8,9 optical, 1,3,10,11 CD, 1,3,7,10,12 flow linear dichroism (FLD), 4,5,13,14 NMR, 2,4,5,15,16 resonance Raman (RR), [17][18][19][20][21] laser-induced dichroism (LID), 22 and photoluminescence 23 ) and computational 24,25 work on these and similarly bound porphyrin systems. Use is also made of matrix method CD (mm-CD) sector rules, 26,27 based on the nondegenerate electric dipole transition moment (edtm) coupling ( e D Ϫ e DNA ) model, for interpreting the signs of DNA-induced CD bands in drugs that are achiral in the unbound state with transition energies below those of the DNA bases.…”