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Nucleic acid related compounds. 91. Biomimetic reactions are in harmony with loss of 2'-substituents as free radicals (not anions) during mechanism-based inactivation of ribonucleotide reductases. Differential interactions of azide, halogen, and alkylthio
Robins, Morris J.,Wnuk, Stanislaw F.,Hernández-Thirring, Amelia E.,Samano, Mirna C.
, p. 11341 - 11348 (2007/10/03)
The initial step in the mechanism-based inactivation of ribonucleotide reductases by 2'-chloro-2'deoxynucleotides is abstraction of H3' by a proximal free radical on the enzyme. The C3' radical is postulated to undergo spontaneous loss of chloride, and th