Macromolecules, the major organic matter of the nuclei of biological cells, made up
of
nucleotide units, and hydrolysable into certain
pyrimidine or
purine bases (usually adenine, cytosine, guanine, thymine, uracil),
d-ribose or 2-deoxy-
d-ribose and phosphoric acid.
Source:
PAC, 1995, 67, 1307
(Glossary of class names of organic compounds and reactivity intermediates based on
structure (IUPAC Recommendations 1995))
on page 1352
Cite as:
IUPAC. Compendium of Chemical Terminology, 2nd ed. (the "Gold Book"). Compiled by
A. D. McNaught and A. Wilkinson. Blackwell Scientific Publications, Oxford (1997).
XML on-line corrected version: http://goldbook.iupac.org (2006-) created by M. Nic,
J. Jirat, B. Kosata; updates compiled by A. Jenkins. ISBN 0-9678550-9-8.
https://doi.org/10.1351/goldbook.
