Thymidine reaction

The thymidine analogue (39) has been prepared by a Wittig reaction on 5 -aldehydo-thymidine. Reaction of 5-chloro-5-deoxy-l,4-... 

An isobutyl carbonate was prepared by reaction with isobutyl chloroformate (Pyr, 20°, 3 days, 73% yield), to protect the 5 -OH group in thymidine. It was cleaved by acidic hydrolysis (80% AcOH, reflux, 15 min, 88% yield). ... 

While mammahan cells reutilize few free pyrimidines, salvage reactions convert the ribonucleosides uridine and cytidine and the deoxyribonucleosides thymidine and deoxycytidine to their respective nucleotides. ATP-dependent phosphoryltransferases (kinases) catalyze the phosphorylation of the nucleoside diphosphates 2 "-de-oxycytidine, 2 -deoxyguanosine, and 2 -deoxyadenosine to their corresponding nucleoside triphosphates. In addition, orotate phosphoribosyltransferase (reaction 5, Figure 34-7), an enzyme of pyrimidine nucleotide synthesis, salvages orotic acid by converting it to orotidine monophosphate (OMP). 

Whereas imidazolides of nucleotides react only in organic solvents with phosphates or pyrophosphates to give the corresponding anhydride derivatives in high yield, ATP can also be formed enzymatically in aqueous solution from AMP-Im with inorganic pyrophosphate in the presence of valyl-f-RNA synthetase.[66] A variant of this method is the one-pot reaction of a nucleoside with phosphoryltristriazole and tributylammonium pyrophosphate. 671 An a-methylphosphonyl-/ ,y-diphosphate of a thymidine derivative has been synthesized in a similar way t681... 

Reaction of the tetrazolide of phosphorous acid diester with a S -protected thymidine and subsequent oxidation with iodine yields the corresponding thymidine phosphortriester [961... 

The animation of thymidine derivatives can also be carried out as a one-pot reaction, in which the ditetrazolide is prepared in situ from the corresponding dichloride and tetrazole.[1963 Similar reactions are described in references [197], [198] and [33a]. 

Upon absorption of UV radiation from sunlight the bases can proceed through photochemical reactions that can lead to photodamage in the nucleic acids. Photochemical reactions do occur in the bases, with thymidine dimerization being a primary result, but at low rates. The bases are quite stable to photochemical damage, having efficient ways to dissipate the harmful electronic energy, as indicated by their ultrashort excited state lifetimes. It had been known for years that the excited states were short lived, and that fluorescence quantum yields are very low for all bases [4, 81, 82], Femtosecond laser spectroscopy has, in recent years, enabled a much... 

Scheme 1 Reactions of the thymidine radical cation in aerated aqueous solution... 

Interestingly, one-electron oxidants partly mimic the effects of OH radicals in their oxidizing reactions with the thymine moiety of nucleosides and DNA. In fact, the main reaction of OH radicals with 1 is addition at C-5 that yields reducing radicals in about 60% yield [34, 38]. The yield of OH radical addition at C-6 is 35% for thymidine (1) whereas the yield of hydrogen abstraction on the methyl group that leads to the formation of 5-methyl-(2 -de-oxyuridylyl) radical (9) is a minor process (5%). Thus, the two major differences in terms of product analysis between the oxidation of dThd by one-electron oxidants and that by the OH radical are the distribution of thymidine 5-hydroxy-6-hydroperoxide diastereomers and the overall percentage of methyl oxidation products. 

This reaction has also been shown to occur in cytidine, cytidylic acid, uracil, uridine, and uridylic acid (found in RNA) but reportedly not in thymine, thymidine, or thymidylic acid/55 The photohydration has been found to be partially reversible, dehydration being nearly complete at extremes of temperature and pH. 

P-NMR spectroscopic studies on the reaction course of the dinucleotide synthesis from 3 -0-acetylthymidine 5 -phosphate (pT-Ac) (180a) and 5 -0-trityl-thymidine (Tr-T) in the presence of triisopropylbenzenesulfonyl chloride (TPS) confirm the metaphosphate hypothesis 123,124). Successive addition of 0.5 equiv. 

DHFR has been the object of intense research for the last few decades. The enzyme catalyses the NADPH-dependent reduction of 7,8-dihydrofolate to 5,6,7,8 tetrahydrofolate, a chemical which participates in the thymidilate synthesis cycle. Thus, the enzyme is crucial in the synthesis of thymidine monophosphate as well as in various one-carbon unit transfer reactions. 

In 1995, Horie et al. described a polymorphic tandem repeat found in the 5 -un-translated region of the thymidylate synthase gene [70]. Thymidylate synthase (TS TYMS) catalyzes the intracellular transfer of a methyl group to deoxyuridine-5-monophosphate (dUMP) to form deoxythymidine-5-monophosphate (dTMP), which is anabolized in cells to the triphosphate (dTTP). This pathway is the only de- novo source of thymidine, an essential precursor for DNA synthesis and repair. The methyl donor for this reaction is the folate cofactor 5,10-methylenetetrahydro-folate (CH2-THF) (Figure 24.4). 

The readily prepared immobilized phosphoramidite could be used to efficiently synthesize oligodeoxyribonucleotides with modified thymidine residues. Whereas the effect of microwave irradiation on the deprotection by exposing the strand to tet-rakis-triphenylphosphine palladium(O) and diethylammonium bicarbonate was only small using dichloromethane as solvent, complete removal of the alloc group was achieved in N,N-dimethylformamide within 10 min at 80 °C (Scheme 7.30). After the reaction, the solid-supported product was washed with N,N-dimethylformamide and dichloromethane and dried, before being subjected to acylation. The coupling... 

Reaction occurred at the primary hydroxyl group in thymidine on treatment with dibenzyl phosphorochloridate in acetonitrile containing pyridine,207 and the bulky bis(2,2,2-trichloroethyl) phosphorochloridate reacts208 with nucleosides to afford nucleoside 5 -[bis(2,2,2-trichloroethyl) phosphates] in yields of 40-70% the... 

Selective reaction at the ci.s-2,3-diol grouping of unprotected D-ribonucleosides has occasionally been observed. Treatment of D-ribonucleosides with tris(tetramethylammonium) trimetaphosphate in M sodium hydroxide for 4 days at room temperature led to a mixture of nucleoside 2 - and 3 -phosphates in yields of >70% no 5 -phosphate was detected.213 Reaction of ethyl (trichloromethyl)phos-phonate with nucleosides in N,N-dimethylformamide containing triethylamine, followed by basic hydrolysis of the reaction product, yielded 2 (3 )-phosphates in variable yields.214 The participation of the cis-diol grouping in the reaction was suggested by the failure of thymidine or 2, 3 -0-isopropylideneuridine to undergo reaction. 

Selective replacement of primary hydroxyl groups in carbohydrates by iodine atoms has been achieved by using the Rydon reagent, namely, methyltriphenoxyphosphonium iodide.368 Treatment of methyl 3,4-O-isopropylidene-jS-D-galactopyranoside with the phosphonium salt in benzene for 48 hours at room temperature yielded 60% of the 6-deoxy-6-iodo derivative,369 and reaction of thymidine, uridine, and 2,2 -anhydrouridine in N,N-dimethylformamide afforded 5 -deoxy-5 -iodo derivatives in yields of 63, 65, and 31%, respectively.370... 

Chromium trioxide in pyridine selectively oxidizes the hydroxymethyl groups in thymidine, 2 -deoxyadenosine, 2 -deoxyguano-sine, and 2 -deoxycytidine to carboxyl groups,525 but the partial liberation of the free, heterocyclic bases in the reactions suggested that oxidation at C-3 also occurs to some extent. 

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