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INTEREST in the role of metal ions in the biochemical reactions of nucleotides and nucleic acids1 has led us to study the isolation of solid metal complexes with nucleotides and their bases, and to perform X-ray structural studies on suitably crystalline materials. In this way unequivocal information can be obtained concerning the preferred coordination sites of a given metal ion and also concerning the important question of hydrogen-bonding interactions in these systems. We report here the isolation of a crystalline complex of cobalt (II) sulphate with adenine (Ade) and details of its crystal structure.
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DE MEESTER, P., GOODGAME, D., RICHMAN, D. et al. Crystallographic Evidence for Ade-AdeH Hydrogen-bonded Pairs in a Cobalt-Adenine Complex. Nature 242, 257–258 (1973). https://doi.org/10.1038/242257b0
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