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Pure Appl. Chem. Vol. 72, No. 3, pp. 343-345, 2000

 

Chemical etiology of nucleic acid structure*

A. Eschenmoser** and R. Krishnamurthy

The Skaggs Institute for Chemical Biology, TSRI, La Jolla, California 92037, USA; Laboratorium für Organische Chemie, ETH, CH-8092 Zürich, Switzerland

Abstract: The synthesis of potentially natural nucleic acid alternatives and comparison of some of their chemical properties with those of RNA and DNA have led to findings that we consider to be relevant in the context of a chemical etiology of nucleic acid structure.

*Lecture presented at the 5th International IUPAC Symposium on Bioorganic Chemistry (ISBOC-5), Pune, India, 30 January - 4 February, 2000.
**Corresponding author

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