Q10 · CSIR NET Chemistry, December 2017
Paper: CSIR NET December 2017 · Subject: Organic Chemistry · Chapter: Natural Products · Topic: Natural Products – General · Marks: 2 · Difficulty: Medium
The structure of ribonucleoside uridine is
(a)

(b)

(c)

(d)

Answer
Answer: B ✓ checked by 4AB · confidence high
Explanation
Uridine is uracil attached through N-1 to the anomeric carbon of β-D-ribofuranose (2′- and 3′-OH present) — structure (b); (a) is deoxyuridine and (c)/(d) are N-3 linked.
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