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Prebiotic nucleotide synthesis: two for the price of one! Photoanomerization of α-D-cytidine is extremely low yielding, but irradiation of the 2′-phosphate results in efficient anomerization and nucleobase hydrolysis such that both pyrimidine nucleotides needed for prebiotic RNA synthesis are produced in a single reaction.
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