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Under the conditions of radiolysis, of the two OH adducts of uracil, only the C5-OH adduct reacts with thiols to form 5-hydroxydihydrouracil.
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Translated from Izvestiya Akademii Nauk SSSR, Seriya Khimicheskaya, No. 12, pp. 2746–2752, December, 1988.
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Grachev, S.A., Kropachev, E.V. & Litvyakova, G.I. Hydrogen atom transfer reactions from the SH group of thiols to OH adducts to uracil during radiolysis. Russ Chem Bull 37, 2472–2477 (1988). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00952621
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