5,5'-Diuracilyl Species from Uracil and

F Zamora; P Amo-Ochoa; B Fischer; A Schimanski; B Lippert

5,5'-Diuracilyl Species from Uracil and

Angew Chem Int Ed Engl. 1999 Aug;38(15):2274-2275.

Authors

F Zamora¹, P Amo-Ochoa, B Fischer, A Schimanski, B Lippert

Affiliation

¹ Departamento de Química Inorgánica, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, E-20049 Madrid (Spain).

PMID: 10425508

Abstract

Not only UV radiation can bring about the dimerization of the pyrimidine nucleobase uracil, a metal ion can as well! The reaction proceeds by a reductive elimination process of two cis-oriented uracil entities, each bonded to Au(III) through C5 [Eq. (a)]. R/R'=H/CH(3), CH(3)/CH(3), H,C(5)H(9)O(4)