- Pulse radiolytic studies on uracil and uracil derivatives. Protonation of their electron adducts at oxygen and carbon.
Pulse radiolytic studies on uracil and uracil derivatives. Protonation of their electron adducts at oxygen and carbon.
International journal of radiation biology and related studies in physics, chemistry, and medicine (1984-07-01)
S Das, D J Deeble, M N Schuchmann, C von Sonntag
PMID6611322
ABSTRACT
The electron adducts of uracil, 1,3-dimethyluracil and 1,3-dimethylthymine, known to protonate rapidly in aqueous solution at oxygen, are now shown to undergo a slower protonation at C(6) producing a radical centred at C(5), a reaction which can be catalysed by buffer.
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