[OS X TeX] Concatinating backslash and id

[Peder Axensten]

I need to define a macro, but I have the macro name without a backslash.
How can I concatenate them (\ and #1, below)?

\newcommand{\mynewcommand}[2]{%
     \newcommand{\#1}{#2}%
}

/Peder
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