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Nuclear Magnetic Resonance of Phosphorus in Deoxythymidine Polynucleotides

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NUCLEAR magnetic resonance signals from polynucleotides of thymidine-5′-phosphate have been investigated and the terminal monoester phosphate distinguished from the diester phosphate of the chain.

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MANDEL, M., WESTLEY, J. Nuclear Magnetic Resonance of Phosphorus in Deoxythymidine Polynucleotides. Nature 203, 301–302 (1964). https://doi.org/10.1038/203301b0

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