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Glycosylation of nucleobases is achieved by heating metal free aqueous solution of nucleobase and sugar. It seems that abstraction of N9/N1 H by C1′-OH promotes N9/N1(nucleobase)-C1′ (sugar) covalent bond formation.
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Singh et al. (2013) studied this question.
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