Journal of Nutrition Vol. 100 No. 9 September 1970, pp. 1053-1056
Copyright © 1970 by American Society for Nutrition
Isolation and Identification of the Pyrimidine Moiety of Thiamin in Rat Urine Using Gas Chromatography-Mass Spectrometry1
William W. White, III,
Willam H. Amos, Jr. and
Robert A. Neal
Department of Biochemistry, Division of Nutrition, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, Tennessee 37203
The compound 2-methyl-4-amino-5-hydroxymethylpyrimidine has been isolated and identified as a metabolite of thiamin in the urine of rats receiving large oral doses of the vitamin.
1 Supported by U. S. Public Health Service Research Grant AM-10297.
Manuscript received 11 May 1970.