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Synthesis of 6-mercaptopurine and 6-[(1-methyl-4-nitroimidazol-5-yl)mercapto]purine tagged at the sulfur

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  1. Research Institute of Medical Radiology, Academy of Medical Sciences of the USSR, Obnisk

    A. S. Singin & T. S. Safonova

  2. S. Ordzhonikidze All-Union Scientific-Research Institute of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, Moscow

    A. S. Singin & T. S. Safonova

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Translated from Khimiko-Farmatsevticheskii Zhurnal. Vol. 9, No. 9, pp. 24–26, September, 1975.

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Singin, A.S., Safonova, T.S. Synthesis of 6-mercaptopurine and 6-[(1-methyl-4-nitroimidazol-5-yl)mercapto]purine tagged at the sulfur. Pharm Chem J 9, 572–574 (1975). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00758852

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