Biochemistry: The Molecular Basis of Life
Biochemistry: The Molecular Basis of Life
6th Edition
ISBN: 9780190209896
Author: Trudy McKee, James R. McKee
Publisher: Oxford University Press
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Chapter 14, Problem 23RQ
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The steric interactions that help in determining the conformations of pyrimidine nucleosides.

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Pyrimidines are heterocyclic aromatic organic compounds. Nucleoside can be described as a molecule containing nitrogenous base (nucleobase) and 5-carbon sugar. This 5-carbon sugar canbe ribose or deoxyribose. These do not containa phosphate group like nucleotides.

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