Nucleotide C4' radical fragmentation is base-dependent

Tetrahedron Letters

Volumn 38, Issue 47, 1997, Pages 8169-8172

  Crich, David ^a   Mo, Xue Sheng ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONFORMATIONAL TRANSITION; HYDROGEN BOND; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; NUCLEIC ACID BASE SUBSTITUTION; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PROTEIN DEGRADATION;

EID: 0030710462     PISSN: 00404039     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0040-4039(97)10249-0     Document Type: Article

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