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Towards a Chemical Etiology of the Natural Nucleic Acids’ Structure

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This report provides a short introduction *) into the general topic of the two lectures given, followed by copies of the complete set of slides shown in these lectures (Lecture 1, Figs. 1–43; Lecture 2, Figs. 44–78), whereby each slide figure is complemented by a short commentary.

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  1. Laboratory of Organic Chemistry, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH), Universitätstrasse 16, CH-8092, Zürich, Switzerland

    Albert Eschenmoser

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  1. I.Co.C.E.A., Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Bologna, Italy

    Chryssostomos Chatgilialoglu

  2. Department of Chemistry, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada

    Victor Snieckus

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Eschenmoser, A. (1996). Towards a Chemical Etiology of the Natural Nucleic Acids’ Structure. In: Chatgilialoglu, C., Snieckus, V. (eds) Chemical Synthesis. NATO ASI Series, vol 320. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-0255-8_13

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