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Products distribution in the oxidation of thymine with hydroxyl radicals
Nucleic Acids Symposium Series
|January 1, 1986
Abstract:
In the oxidation of thymine with hydroxyl radical generated from L-ascorbic acid/copper(II) ion/O system, four reaction products, thymine glycol(TG), N-formyl-N'-pyruvylurea(FPU), 5-hydroxymethyluracil(HMU) and 5-hydroxy-5-methyl barbituric acid(HMBA) were obtained. A reaction scheme was proposed to explain the products distribution observed.