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The extraordinary frequency with which N-heterocyclic compounds occur as essential components of biochemical pathways inevitably poses the question as to what it is about these ring structures that singles them out by nature as biochemical tools. In considering this question, we could usefully ask what the various roles planed by these corn-pounds have in common. The answer has to be ‘catalysis’.
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Brown, E.G. (1998). N-Heterocycles and living systems — conclusions. In: Ring Nitrogen and Key Biomolecules. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-4906-8_10
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