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Zinc bromide has been shown by several groups of workers to be a useful reagent in the removal of trityl protecting groups from nucleotides. An attempt is made here to establish optimum conditions for the reaction, a strange observation is reported, and a novel workup via a soluble, lipophilic zinc complex is described.
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Waldmeier et al. (1982) studied this question.
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