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ADENINE , or 6-AMINO-PURIN, C5H5N5, in chemistry , a basic substance which has been obtained as a decomposition product of nuclein, and also from the pancreatic glands of oxen. It has been synthesized by E. Fischer
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acid and phosphonium iodide is converted into adenine. In 1898 E. Fischer also obtained it from 8-oxy-2.6-dichlorpurin ,Berichte, 1898, 31, p. 104). It crystallizes in long needles; forms salts C5H5N5.2HI and (C5H5N5)2.HsSO4.2H20, and is converted by nitrous acid into hypoxanthine or 6-oxypurin. On heating
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