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SUBMITTER: Das S
PROVIDER: S-EPMC2960636 | biostudies-literature | 2008 Aug
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Acta crystallographica. Section E, Structure reports online 20080806 Pt 9
Uracil, the pyrimidine nucleobase, which combined with adenine forms one of the major motifs present in the biopolymer RNA, is also involved in the self-assembly of RNA. In the title compound, C(9)H(14)N(4)O(2)·2H(2)O, the asymmetric unit contains one dimethyl-amino-uracil group and two water mol-ecules. The plane of the N=C-NMe(2) side chain is inclined at 27.6 (5)° to the plane of the uracil ring. Both water mol-ecules form O-H⋯O hydrogen bonds with the carbonyl O atoms of the uracil group. Ad ...[more]