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Electrochemical Properties of Model Compounds of Nucleic Heterocycles in Aqueous Solutions

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Biological Aspects of Electrochemistry

Part of the book series: Experientia Supplementum ((EXS,volume 18))

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Taking into account the biological significance of electron-exchange properties of nucleic heterocycles, we have studied the electrochemical reduction of their simplest model compound i.e. the pyrimidine, using drop-time controlled polarography and cyclic voltammetry on mercury drop and stationary vitreous carbon electrode. The characteristics of the different reduction waves have been studied with respect to the different experimental parameters: pH, nature and concentration of buffer solutions, pyrimidine concentration, mercury flow and mechanically controlled drop-time, temperature, nature of the electrode, etc. The analysis of the experimental data is discussed in terms of energetical significance of the phenomena observed. Evidence is given of a chemical association step, possibly a dimerization, occuring between the two reduction steps in acid media.

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  1. Laboratoire d’Energétique Electrochimique, Université Paris VI, 10 rue Vauquelin, 75-Paris 5, France

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  1. Istituto Superiore di Sanità, Rome, Italy

    Giulio Milazzo

  2. Istituto Chimico dell’Università, Rome, Italy

    Peter E. Jones (Visiting Professor) (Visiting Professor)

  3. Istituto di Chimica, Facoltà di Ingegneria dell’Università, Rome, Italy

    Liliana Rampazzo

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Thévenot, D., Hammouya, G. (1971). Electrochemical Properties of Model Compounds of Nucleic Heterocycles in Aqueous Solutions. In: Milazzo, G., Jones, P.E., Rampazzo, L. (eds) Biological Aspects of Electrochemistry. Experientia Supplementum, vol 18. Birkhäuser, Basel. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-0348-5848-9_62

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