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Mechanism of Electrochemical Reduction of 2-Pyrimidone, Cytosine and Cytidine

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Biological Aspects of Electrochemistry

Part of the book series: Experientia Supplementum ((EXS,volume 18))

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2-Pyrimidone, cytosine and cytidine have been reduced electrochemically and the reduction products identified. The product of the reduction of 2-pyrimidone shows the properties of a dimer. Cytosine gives several products which differ in neutral and acidic media; one, 5,6-dihydrocytosine, indicates the initial reduction step in the 5,6 bond. A secondary product has been found to be the same as that of the reduction of 2-pyrimidone. 5,6-Dihydrocytidine has been identified in the reduction of cytidine.

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  1. Department of Biophysics, Institute of Experimental Physics, University of Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland

    B. Czochralska & D. Shugar

  2. Institute of Biochemistry and Biophysics, Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland

    B. Czochralska & D. Shugar

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  1. Istituto Superiore di SanitĂ , Rome, Italy

    Giulio Milazzo

  2. Istituto Chimico dell’Università, Rome, Italy

    Peter E. Jones (Visiting Professor) (Visiting Professor)

  3. Istituto di Chimica, Facoltà di Ingegneria dell’Università, Rome, Italy

    Liliana Rampazzo

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Czochralska, B., Shugar, D. (1971). Mechanism of Electrochemical Reduction of 2-Pyrimidone, Cytosine and Cytidine. In: Milazzo, G., Jones, P.E., Rampazzo, L. (eds) Biological Aspects of Electrochemistry. Experientia Supplementum, vol 18. Birkhäuser, Basel. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-0348-5848-9_20

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