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Structures of C-5-modified uridine nucleosides (2–8) which stabilize nucleic acid helices, probably by enhancing base stacking.50–59 All the substituents shown are stabilizing relative to deoxyuridine (which has hydrogen at the C-5 position), including the C-5 methyl group of thymidine (1).
