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Definition of Pyrimidines
1. pyrimidine [n] - See also: pyrimidine
Lexicographical Neighbors of Pyrimidines
Literary usage of Pyrimidines
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Text-book of Organic Chemistry for Students of Medicine and Biology by Elmer Verner McCollum (1920)
"The pyrimidines. In the nuclei of animal and plant cells occur the nucleic acids,
complex compounds which on hydrolysis yield phosphoric acid, purines (147) ..."
2. A Text-book of Organic Chemistry for Students of Medicine and Biology by Elmer Verner McCollum (1916)
"CHAPTER XIV THE pyrimidines, PYRAZINES AND PURINES 141. The pyrimidines. In the
nuclei of animal and plant cells occur the nucleic acids, complex compounds ..."
3. Practical organic and bio-chemistry by Robert Henry Aders Plimmer (1920)
"... crotonic acid, form the group of compounds termed the pyrimidines. They have
the structure:— 1 N—C 6 II 2 CC 5 Iu • 3 N-C4 To this group belong the ..."
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