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. 2015 Aug 19;22(1):71. doi: 10.1186/s12929-015-0175-6

Fig. 1.

Fig. 1

Chemical structure of NEO212. Shown is the carbamate linkage between the monoterpene perillyl alcohol (POH) and the amide functional group of the imidazotetrazine TMZ. Shaded area: TMZ moiety that forms the highly reactive methyldiazonium ion that methylates DNA after spontaneous decomposition of the pro-drug TMZ that takes place in aqueous solution at neutral pH [31]