Pyrimidines

Overview

Pyrimidines are a class of organic compounds built around a six-membered ring containing carbon and two nitrogen atoms. They are of central importance in biology because three of the building blocks of DNA and RNA, namely cytosine, thymine, and uracil, are pyrimidines, making this ring system essential to the storage and transfer of genetic information. Beyond nucleic acids, the pyrimidine framework appears in vitamins, coenzymes, and many pharmaceuticals, and chemists frequently use and modify it to create molecules with useful biological and medicinal properties. Its versatility and prevalence make pyrimidine chemistry a significant area of study. Within this journal's chemistry scope, ring systems such as pyrimidines are relevant to the synthesis, modification, and characterization of organic and bioactive molecules. Research in this broad area explores how chemical structures relate to their properties and functions, including the design of compounds with potential applications in medicine and the analysis of natural and synthetic substances. This page gathers encyclopedic information on pyrimidines together with peer-reviewed, open-access research relevant to organic and chemical science within the journal's broader scope.

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• Relativistic Chiral Inversion of Non-Zero Nuclear Magnetic Moments During Centrifugal Industrial Fermentative Processes
  Reginald B. Little · 2023 · European Journal of Applied Physics

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