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In this paper, we consider words that are free of special type of palindromes, inspired by Watson-Crick complementarity in DNA sequences which we call Watson-Crick palindromic free words or θ-palindromic free words, when θ is an antimorphic involution that incorporates the notion of Watson-Crick complementarity of DNA sequences. We discuss certain algebraic properties of the set of all words that avoids θ-palindromes. We give a complete characterization of the syntactic monoid of the language consisting of all θ-palindromic free words over a given alphabet. We also study the ideals of the corresponding syntactic semigroup obtained using Green's relations. Our results also hold for the more general case, where the Watson-Crick complementarity function is replaced by an arbitrary antimorphic involution.
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