Uridine -, preparation

These were originally prepared by Khorana as selective protective groups for the 5 -OH of nucleosides and nucleotides. They were designed to be more acid-labile than the trityl group because depurination is often a problem in the acid-catalyzed removal of the trityl group. Introduction of p-methoxy groups increases the rate of hydrolysis by about one order of magnitude for each p-methoxy substituent. For 5 -protected uridine derivatives in 80% AcOH, 20°, the time for hydrolysis was... 

Azauridine was also synthesized using the knowledge of the course of alkylation of 6-azauracil 2-methylmercapto derivatives (e.g., Section II,B,4,b). The 1-ribofuranosyl derivative obtained by reaction of the mercury salt of the 2-methylmercapto derivative with tri-O-benzoyl-jS-D-ribofuranosyl chloride on removal of the methyl-mercapto and then benzoyl groups yielded crystalline 6-azauridine, The main difference between uracil and 6-azauracil nucleosides consists in the preparation of cyclic nucleosides. It is known that uridine can be readily converted to cyclic nucleosides by the reaction of 2 (50-O-mesyl derivatives with nucleophilic agents, Analogous... 

Different kinds of nucleosides (778) were prepared by condensation of compound 400 (see Section 11,3) with trimethylsilylated uracils under Lewis acid catalysis, and removal of one fluorine atom at C-2 of the sugars. Uridine 5 -(2-acetamido-2,4-dideoxy-4-fluoro-a-D-galactopyranosyl di-... 

Perfluoroalkyl)-5 -deoxy-5 -fluoro- and 5-(perfluoroalkyl)-2, 5 -di-deoxy-5 -fluoro-uridines were prepared " from 840 and 834, respectively, using perfluoroalkyl-copper complexes. Among them, 5 -deoxy-5 -fluoro-(846) and 2, 5 -dideoxy-5 -fluoro-5-(perfluoroethyl)uridine (839) were particularly effective against Ehrlich ascites carcinoma. 5-Hydroxyl (847) and 5-amino or 5-alkylamino (5-NHMe, -NHBu, -NHCH2Ph, -morpholino, -piperidino, and -pyrrolo) analogs (848) of 840 were prepared. The a anomer of 5 -deoxy-5 -fluorouridine (840) was also synthesized. "... 

Online detection using 4H nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) is a detection mode that has become increasingly practical. In a recent application, cell culture supernatant was monitored on-line with 1-dimensional NMR for trehalose, P-D-pyranose, P-D-furanose, succinate, acetate and uridine.33 In stopped-flow mode, column fractions can also be analyzed by 2-D NMR. Reaction products of the preparation of the neuromuscular blocking compound atracurium besylate were separated on chiral HPLC and detected by 4H NMR.34 Ten isomeric peaks were separated on a cellulose-based phase and identified by online NMR in stopped-flow mode. 

Synthesis of sucrose 6 -phosphate by an enzymic method using uridine 5 -(a-D-glucopyranosyl diphosphate) plus D-glucose 6-phosphate has been reported.126-131 The first, unambiguous, chemical synthesis of sucrose 6 -phosphate was achieved by Buchanan and coworkers.18 The reaction of 2,3,4,6,l, 3, 4 -hepta-0-acetylsucrose, prepared by five steps of synthesis, with cyanoethyl phosphate in pyridine gave a crude product from which sucrose 6 -phosphate was isolated as the barium salt. 

In the U.S.A. various pyridazine analogues of naturally occurring pyrimidine nucleosides have been prepared [299, 300] for a review on this subject see [13]. Within this series, 3-deaza-6-azauridine (86) has been found to inhibit the growth of L-1210 mouse leukaemic cells with an ID50 value of a 7 X 10 5 M [299, 301], The inhibitory effect of this uridine isoster might be due to interference in pyrimidine biosynthesis [302],... 

Tipson devoted most of his years in Levene s laboratory accomplishing seminal work on the components of nucleic acids. To determine the ring forms of the ribose component of the ribonucleosides he applied Haworth s methylation technique and established the furanoid structure for the sugar in adenosine, guanosine, uridine, and thymidine. He showed that formation of a monotrityl ether is not a reliable proof for the presence of a primary alcohol group in a nucleoside, whereas a tosyl ester that is readily displaced by iodide affords clear evidence that the ester is at the 5-position of the pentofuranose. Acetonation of ribonucleosides was shown to give the 2, 3 -C -isopropyl-idene derivatives, which were to become extensively used in nucleoside and nucleotide chemistry, and were utilized by Tipson in the first chemical preparation of a ribonucleotide, inosinic acid. 

A solution of 5 -0-acetyl-2 3 -0-isopropylidene-3-nitrouridine [44, prepared from 5 -0-acetyl-2 3 -0-isopropylideneuridine and nitronium triflu-oroacetate (91JOC7038)] in acetonitrile gave, when treated with an acetonitrile-water solution of N-ammonium choride, potassium hydroxide, and triethylamine for 5 days, 5 -(9-acetyl-2 3 -(9-isopropylideneuridine (45) in 73% yield. It contained the label at position 3. Deprotection of the O-acetyl and O-isopropylidene groups by methanol/hydrochloric acid gave [3- N]uridine (46) (Scheme III.26). 

Ethyl 2-ethylthio-4-chloro-5-pyrimidinecarboxylate (XXIIa), as well as the corresponding4-hydroxy-(XXIIb) and 4-amino-(XXIIIa) derivatives, possess-anti-cytogenic activity on Neurospora crassa [223, 224]. Compounds (XXIIIa, b and c) were found to inhibit the conversion of orotic acid to the uridine nucleotides [202]. Ethyl 2-methylthio-4-(halo-substituted anilino)-5-pyrimidinecarboxylates (XXIV), particularly the o-bromo- and the o-chloro- derivatives, substantially inhibit the growth of five experimental mouse tumours (Krebs-2 ascites carcinoma, Ehrlich carcinoma clone 2, leukaemia L-1210, carcinoma 755 and lymphocytic neoplasm P-288) [225]. Compounds of this type are usually prepared by the base catalysed condensation of ethoxymethylenemalonic esters or related derivatives with urea, thiourea, guanidine, or substituted amidine-type analogues [212, 225-237]. 

F3. Fevery, J., Leroy, P., and Heirwegh, K. P. M., Enzymic transfer of glucose and xylose from uridine diphosphate xylose to bilirubin by untreated and digitonin-activated preparations from rat liver. Biochem. J. 129, 619-633 (1972). 

Pulse radiolysis experiments have shown that "OH radical adds preferentially at C5 of the uracil moiety, giving rise to the reducing 5-hydroxy-5,6-uracil-6-yl radical. Interestingly, the two cis diastereomers of 6-hydroperoxy-5-hydroxy-5,6-dihydrouridine, two of the expected final products of the latter radicals in aerated aqueous solutions, have been prepared by trifluoroacetic acid treatment of uridine (3, R = H, = ribose) in the presence of H202 (equation 14). The mechanism of the reaction that involves transient formation of an epoxide-type intermediate followed by nucleophilic attack by a perhy-droxyl group at C6 presents similarities with the substitution of thymine bromohydrin by... 

In fluorine-18 chemistry some enzymatic transformations of compounds already labelled with fluorine-18 have been reported the synthesis of 6-[ F] fluoro-L-DOPA from 4-[ F]catechol by jS-tyrosinase [241], the separation of racemic mixtures of p F]fluoroaromatic amino acids by L-amino acylase [242] and the preparation of the coenzyme uridine diphospho-2-deoxy-2-p F]fluoro-a-o-glucose from [ F]FDG-1-phosphate by UDP-glucose pyrophosphorylase [243]. In living nature compounds exhibiting a carbon-fluorine bond are very rare. 

The rate of dehydration of uridine hydrate (and the hydrates of various uridine phosphates) has been reported by Logan and Whitmore,52 at 86°C and a pH of 8.4. The concentration of hydrate was unspecified (it was prepared by photolysis of uridine solution and not isolated), and the fraction of complete recovery was not specified (about 97.5% recovery is shown). The main purpose was to compare the dehydration rates of uridine, various uridine phosphates and polyuri-dylic acid. The uncertainty about the nature of the products formed in the dehydration of irradiated uridylic acid (see below), however, makes interpretation of the observed rates quite difficult. It would be better to measure the rates of formation of a particular product than to rely too heavily on measurements of absorbance change. 

The sole component of the uridine diphosphate uronic acid fraction from animal tissues,10,124,139 Chlorella,4 red algae,83 and some bacteria118,119 is uridine 5 -(a-D-glucopyranosyluronic acid pyrophosphate) (32), whereas a similar preparation from Pneumococcus140 contains only the a-D-galactopyranosyluronic acid derivative. Both esters have been shown to occur in extracts of mung bean.141,142... 

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