TY - JOUR AU - Giese, Bernd PY - 2001/04/25 Y2 - 2024/03/29 TI - Radicals and the Birth and Death of DNA JF - CHIMIA JA - Chimia VL - 55 IS - 4 SE - Scientific Articles DO - 10.2533/chimia.2001.275 UR - https://www.chimia.ch/chimia/article/view/2001_275 SP - 275 AB - Radicals have important functions in the enzymatic synthesis of deoxyribonucleotides and their destruction by antibiotics. The chemical basis for these reactions is that radicals dramatically speed up ionic reactions. Nature has developed methods to generate these radicals under mild conditions in water as solvent. The 'catalytic' effect of these reactive intermediates is described. ER -