Abstract

The reduction potentials in aqueous solution of the pyrimidine bases, nucleosides, and nucleotides of uracil (U) and thymine (T) were determined using the technique of pulse radiolysis with time-resolved spectrophotometric detection. The electron adducts of U and T were found to undergo reversible electron exchange with a series of ring-substituted N-methylpyridinium cations with known reduction potential. From the concentrations of the pyrimidine electron adducts and the reduced N-methylpyridinium compounds at electron-transfer equilibrium, the thermodynamical equilibrium constants wereobtained and from these the reduction potentials

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