Nucleosides purine anhydro

Monaharan has developed a versatile synthetic route for the synthesis of 2 -0-[(N, iV-dimethylamino)-oxyethyl] modified purine and pyrimidine nucleoside phosphoramidites (63a-d) to be used as antisense oligonucleotide building blocks. In the syntheses of the purine-based analogues, the (iV, N-dimethylamino)-oxyethyl group was introduced via a 2 -allyloxy nucleoside intermediate, while the pyrimidine-based nucleosides were obtained from the TBDMS-protected 2,2 -anhydro-5-methyluridine via ring opening reaction in the presence of borane and ethylene glycol. The aminoxy derivatives were... 

Also lying in the spongonucleoside field was Dr. Baker s novel synthesis of the yS-D-arabinofuranosylpyrimidines utilizing 2-0-acetyl-5-0-methoxycarbonyl-3-O-p-tolylsulfonyl-D-xylofuranosyl chloride, the halide that had been used in the synthesis of 2 -deoxyadenosine. When this halide was condensed with mercury derivatives of thymine and 5-fluoro-uracil and the products deacylated with base, l-yS-n-arabinofuranosyl-thymine and -5-fluorouracil were obtained directly, in reactions that proceeded by way of the 2,3-anhydro-n-ribofuranosides and the 2,2 -anhydronucleosides. These studies were later expanded by others, in synthetic work that has provided alternative paths to purine deoxy-nucleosides and /2-D-arabinosyIpurines, and they anticipated many of the syntheses of arabinosylcytosine (an important antitumor agent) that proceed by way of 2,2 -anhydronucleosides. 

Numerous syntheses have also been reported for arabinofuranosyl nucleoside analogues, prepared either conventionally from arabinofuranosyl derivatives or via 2,2-anhydro-nucleosides obtained from appropriate ribonucleosides. 5-Aza-cytosine-D-arabinoside has been synthesized and found to show similar antiviral activity to Ara-C(arabinosyl-cytosine). 7-a-, 7-<3-, 9-0 -, and 9- 3-arabino-furanosyl derivatives of 3-deazaguanine have also been prepared, but none showed any anti-tumour activity. 9-(o -D-Arabinofuranosyl)-8-aza[2- C]-adenine, 7-(/3-D-arabinofuranosyl)-pyrrolo[2,3-d]pyrimidine-4(3//)-one (15)," l-(a-D-arabinofuranosyl)- and l-(/3-D-xylofuranosyl)-4-nitropyrazole, and Ot-arabino-nucleosides of 5-fluoro-cytosine and -uracil derivatives have also been prepared. An improved synthesis of 9-(/3-D-arabinofuranosyl)-2-fluoro-adenine has been reported. The ratio of o to 3 anomers obtained by phase-transfer reaction of 2,3,5-tri-O-benzyl-D-arabinofuranosyl bromide with 6-chloro-2-thiomethyl-7-deazapurine varied with the quaternary ammonium salt used as a catalyst, although the jU-anomer predominated in every case. 2,2-Anhydro-nucleosides have been used to prepare l-j3-D-arabinofiiranosyl derivatives of 5-alkylthio-uracils, 5-ethyl-cytosine, and 5-ethyl-uracil, 8-alkylamino-purines, and 2-aralkylamino-l,4-dihydro-4-imino-pyrimidine hydrochlorides (16). ... 

Reductive cleavage (triethylsilane-trimethylsilyl triilate) of the isopropylidene derivatives 17 gives anhydro-sugars 18. The OH-2 groups in 18 have been further converted to mediates and displaced with purine bases or azide (further converted into a pyrimidine ring) to lead to nucleoside analogues. ... 

Cytidine has been converted into l-(5-amino-5-deoxy-j8-D-arabinofuranosyl) cytosine by a sequence of reactions involving A-benzoylation, sulphonation, acetylation, displacement with azide ion, e/c., and l-(3-amino-3-deoxy-jS-D-arabinofuranosyl)-6-azauracil was derived from 2, 3 -di-0-methanesulphonyl-5 -O-trityl-6-azauridine via 2,2 - and 2, 3 -anhydro-nucleosides. Other syntheses have been accomplished by the condensation of an appropriately derivatized amino-sugar with either a pyrimidine or purine derivative for example, the Hilbert route was used to prepare l-(2-amino-2-deoxy-a-D-arabino- and -jS-o-xylo-furanosyl)cytosine. > The reactivity of l,3,4,6-tetra-0-acetyl-2-acyl-amido-2-deoxy-j3-D-glucopyranoses in condensation reactions with 2,6-dichloro-purine, theophylline, and 6-benzylaminopurine was shown to be in the order benzamido > acetamido > phthalimido. 9-(3-Acetamido-2,5-di-0-acetyl-3-deoxy-j8-D-ribofuranosyl)-2,6-dichloropurine has been synthesized and converted into the corresponding 2,6-diamino- and 6-amino-2-chloro(fluoro)-nucleosides. ... 

Some 4, S -unsaturated-S -fluoroadenosine nucleosides are described in Chapter 20 as well as some purine nucleosides containing the 2 -deoxy-2 fluoro- -D-arabinofuransoyl moiety. A number of dideoxymonofluoro- and dideo difluoro-a-D-glucopyranosyl phosphates have been prepared in order to study their relative rates of acid hydrolysis. The synthesis of a fluorinated 3-deoj -D-glyceric add phosphonate is discussed in Chapter 17 and the conversion of a l,3-anhydro-2-deojty- 2,2-difluoro-D-hexose derivative into a hydrolytically stable thromboxane A2 mimic is covered in Chapter 24. 

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