“…It was also reported that not only the H atom (NH) and carbonyl oxygen atom of the pyrimidine ring, but also the N atom on pyrimidine ring and the H atom on the amino group of cytosine can form hydrogen bonding with catechin and formamide [23,26]. Furthermore, cytosine can also form hydrogen bonding with nitrosamine [27], water [28], hydrogen peroxide [29], uracil [30], guanine [31][32][33][34] and some drugs [35][36][37][38], such as 5-uorouracil, methimazole, ketoprofen and curcumin. In addition to hydrogen bonding, π•••π interactions were also found in cytosine-guanine, cytosine-curcumin-H 2 O, cytosine-uracil and cytosine-amino acids (arginine, aspartic/glutamic acid, aspartate/glutamate) systems [30,33,34,38,39].…”