Nucleic acid electrophilic reagents

Site-specific photosensitized modification of nucleic acids by biradical and electrophilic reagents 99UK1062. 

Reactions with electrophilic reagents. Reactions of nucleic acids with the simplest electrophile, the proton, have been considered in Section A2. Somewhat similar are the reactions by which metal ions bind at many sites on both the bases and the phosphate groups of the backbone.550... 

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