“…The initial GG strand eluted at a retention time of t R = 40 min with a m/z = 909.75 amu and z = 2 ( Table 3). The products of guanine oxidation were the imidazolone (3, Scheme 5; t R = 38 min, m/z = 890.35 amu), [39,40] the dehydroguanidinohydantoin (4; t R = 38 min, m/z = 911.75 amu), [36,42,43] and a proposed N-formylamido-iminohydantoin (5; t R = 32.8 min, m/z = 926.55 amu) [32,33] derivative. On this sequence, which was selected to present an oxidation-sensitive GG site, the guanine [a] DM: Mass of the modified oligonucleotide minus the mass of the initial oligonucleotide.…”