8-Chloro-3-methyl-1,2,4-triazolo[4,3-a]pyrazine is used as a reagent to synthesize derivatives of Formycin, a C-nucleoside antibiotic that inhibits the influenza A virus and is also known to replace adenosine during transcription.
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