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Intermolecular Interactions in Adenine Barbiturate Complexes

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Molecular and Quantum Pharmacology

Part of the book series: The Jerusalem Symposia on Quantum Chemistry and Biochemistry ((JSQC,volume 7))

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Abstract

Barbiturates are many things to many people. To the pharmacologist they are highly effective sedative-hypnotic agents [1]. To the physiologist they are general metabolic depressants that appear to act as competitive inhibitors in oxidative metabolism [1]. However to the biochemist they are, perhaps, most notable in their resemblance to the nucleic acid bases uracil and thymine.

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  1. Dept. of Chemistry, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pa, 19174, USA

    Donald Voet

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  2. Institut de Biologie Physico-Chimique (Fondation Edmond de Rothschild), Université de Paris, Paris, France

    Bernard Pullman

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Voet, D. (1974). Intermolecular Interactions in Adenine Barbiturate Complexes. In: Bergmann, E.D., Pullman, B. (eds) Molecular and Quantum Pharmacology. The Jerusalem Symposia on Quantum Chemistry and Biochemistry, vol 7. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-1758-9_30

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