2 -3 -Phosphotriesters

A major problem in the development of phosphotriester syntheses has been the lack of appropriate condensing agents. DCC cannot be used, because it will not activate phosphodi-... 

Phosphate triesters (18) are iatermediates ia both the phosphotriester and phosphoramidite methods, and under appropriate conditions for deprotection of the bases and cleavage of the support, can be obtained directiy by usiag these approaches. The ethyl and isopropyl esters have been obtained directiy by usiag the phosphoramidite method because these are stable duting the normal deprotection procedure (62). By changing the oxidizing agent to Sg, both amidate and triester thiolates can be obtained. 

The trifluoroethyl group was used as an activating group in the phosphotriester approach to oligonucleotide synthesis, as well as a protective group that could be removed with 4-nitrobenzaldoxime (tetramethylguanidine, dioxane, H20). ... 

In the case of the phosphotriesters 94, the use of engineered mutants of phosphotriesterase allowed not only to enhance but even to reverse the stereoselectivity of the native enzyme. The ees of the recovered esters exceeded 95%. 

The involvement of monomeric metaphosphate in the phosphoryl transfer from phosphate monoesters, and of pentaco-ordinate intermediates from phosphotriesters represent two extremes in the mechanistics of the phosphoryl transfer process. Between the extremes are the (S 2)p processes involving transition states having various bond orders, but no true... 

Fig. 64. An a-D-GalNAc phosphotriester dendron built using phosphoramidite chemistry (Kratzer and Roy, unpublished data).385...

The exceptional reactivity of DNA for protonated N-hydroxy arylamines can be rationalized by at least two mechanisms. First, intercalation of the electrophilic intermediate between DNA bases could sterically assist in desolvation and in directing the electrophilic center of the carcinogen over the nucleophilic region of the DNA base. This seems unlikely, however, as pretreatment of DNA with cis-Pt, which decreased the DNA contour length by 50%, failed to reduce the reactivity of N-hydroxy-1-naphthylamine for the DNA (137). A second possibility involves an electrostatic attraction between the electrophile and the phosphate backbone of the DNA (77). This seems more probable since eithe j +high ionic strength or stoichiometric (to DNA-P) amounts of Mg strongly inhibit DNA adduct formation (77,137). In addition, evidence has been presented that N-hydroxy arylamine-DNA/RNA phosphotriesters may be formed which induce strand breaks (137,138) and could serve as a catalyst for desolvation and subsequent adduct formation. 

The mechanism of phosphate ester hydrolysis by hydroxide is shown in Figure 1 for a phosphodiester substrate. A SN2 mechanism with a trigonal-bipyramidal transition state is generally accepted for the uncatalyzed cleavage of phosphodiesters and phosphotriesters by nucleophilic attack at phosphorus. In uncatalyzed phosphate monoester hydrolysis, a SN1 mechanism with formation of a (POj) intermediate competes with the SN2 mechanism. For alkyl phosphates, nucleophilic attack at the carbon atom is also relevant. In contrast, all enzymatic cleavage reactions of mono-, di-, and triesters seem to follow an SN2... 

Since 2-deoxy-2-fluoro derivatives of aldopyranoses and furanoses are far more stable towards hydrolytic conditions than their 2-deoxy counterparts, the synthesis of the former entails primary preparation of the anomeric phosphotriesters 31, which are chromatographically separated into individual diastereomers and subsequently deprotected on phosphorus... 

The propensity of the cesium salts of week acids to accelerate SN2 type displacement reactions was exploited for the stereodirected conversion of glycosyl nitrates into anomeric phosphotriesters by exposure of phosphoric acid diesters to cesium salts (Scheme 9).16 Thus, glycosyl nitrate 50, obtained by azidonitration of 3,4-di-O-acetyl-L-fucal, was treated with... 

A few nitrogen-substituted allenes themselves are known as biologically active compounds [154], For example, the 9-(4 -hydroxy-1, 2 -butadienyl)adenine (268a) was found to inhibit in vitro replication and cytopathic effects of human immunodeficiency viruses HIV-1 and HIV-2 [155], More recently, an increase in the anti-HIV activity in cell cultures using the adenallene phosphotriester derivative 268b was reported (Scheme 8.72) [156]. 

Using phosphotriester methods, dinucleoside (3 - 50-monophosphates containing 6-methyl-2,-deoxyuridine at the 3 - or 5 -end have been prepared.44 N.m.r. spectroscopy indicates that this nucleoside possesses the syn conformation in these compounds, and, on treatment with snake venom phosphodiesterase, d(m6UpT) is degraded, while d(Apm6U) is not, indicating that this enzyme, a 3 -exonuclease, requires the anti conformation to be present in the substrate. Two modified nucleo-side-5 -monophosphates, (20) and (21), which are resistant to 5 -nucleotidase, have been isolated from tRNA snake venom hydrolysates.45 A synthesis of (20) has been reported.46... 

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