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Thymidine is one of the nucleosides in DNA, I'd hardly call that obscure. Not as easy and cheap to obtain as e.g. glucose or fructose, sure. But the other two
by fabian2k 9y ago
Thymidine is one of the nucleosides in DNA, I'd hardly call that obscure. Not as easy and cheap to obtain as e.g. glucose or fructose, sure.
But the other two papers describe syntheses using mannose and ribose, so they did not use thymidine exclusively.