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SUBMITTER: Achrainer F
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6271186 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Dec
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Achrainer Florian F Zipse Hendrik H
Molecules (Basel, Switzerland) 20141222 12
The potential of a larger number of sugar models to act as dihydrogen donors in transfer hydrogenation reactions has been quantified through the calculation of hydrogenation energies of the respective oxidized products. Comparison of the calculated energies to hydrogenation energies of nucleobases shows that many sugar fragment radicals can reduce pyrimidine bases such as uracil in a strongly exothermic fashion. The most potent reducing agent is the C3' ribosyl radical. The energetics of intramo ...[more]