DNA Damage Due to Diradical-Generating Cyclizations

Radical and Radical Ion Reactivity in Nucleic Acid Chemistry

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 389-419

  Kerwin, Sean M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

DNA damage due to diradical generating cyclizations; Enyne cumulene cyclization of NCS chromophore; Myers Saito cyclization of enyne allenes

Indexed keywords

EID: 79960628970     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470526279.ch13     Document Type: Chapter

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