Chemical Properties
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Uses
Isocytosine is a useful intermediate for chemical modifications of base and sugar moieties in natural nucleosides
Uses
Isocytosine (2-aminouracil) is an isomer of cytosine used in physical chemical studies involving metal complex binding, hydrogen-bonding, and tautomerism and proton transfer effects in nucleobases.
Definition
ChEBI: An aminopyrimidine in which the pyrimidine ring bears amino and hydroxy substituents at positions 2 and 4, respectively.