Ribofuranoside 3-phosphate, acid hydrolysis

Cytosine was isolated from hydrolysis of calf thymus in 1894 and by 1903 its structure was known and it had been synthesized from 2-ethylthiopyrimidin-4(3H)-one. The acid hydrolysis of ribonucleic acid gives nucleotides, among which are two cytidylic acids, 2 -and 3 -phosphates of cytidine further hydrolysis gives cytidine itself, i.e. the 1-/3-D-ribofuranoside of cytosine, and thence cytosine. The deoxyribonucleic acids likewise yield deoxyribonucleotides, including cytosine deoxyribose-5 -phosphate, from which the phosphate may be removed to give cytosine deoxyriboside and thence cytosine. 

D-Ribose 5-phosphate is a normal metabolite in plants and animals. It was first prepared by acid hydrolysis of inosinic acid or from adenosine 5 -phosphate . It is formed enzymically from ribose and ATP . Synthesis has been carried out by phosphorylating 2,3-isopropylidene-methyl-D-ribofuranoside °. ... 

In 1932 Levene and Harris128 showed that the hydrolysis of xanthylic acid gave rise to the formation of a D-ribose phosphate which was not identical with the known D-ribose 5-phosphate. Since xanthylic acid is the monophosphate derivative of a ribofuranoside of xanthine it followed that the new phosphate was either D-ribose 2-phosphate or the 3-isomer (L). Shortly thereafter the same authors129 succeeded in reducing the new D-ribose phosphate with hydrogen in the presence of platinum oxide to a ribitol phosphoric acid (LI) which was completely... 

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