Design and Synthesis of Novel Dinucleotide Analogs

Syntheses of dinucleotide analogs, (S,R) cis-(4-((4-amino-2-oxopyrimidin-1(2H)-yl)methyl)-1,3-dioxolan-2-yl)methyl (2R,3R,5R)-2-(hydroxymethyl)-5-(5-methyl-2,4-dioxo-3,4-dihydropyrimidin-1(2H)-yl)-tetrahydrofuran-3-yl hydrogen phosphate (5a) and (S,R) cis-(5-((4-amino-2-oxopyrimidin-1(2H)-yl)methyl)-1,3-oxathiolan-2-yl)methyl (2R,3R,5R)-2-(hydroxymethyl)-5-(5-methyl-2,4-dioxo-3,4-dihydropyrimidin-1(2H)-yl)-tetrahydrofuran-3-yl hydrogen phosphate (5b), were accomplished by the use of a new strategy. The use of phenyldichlorophosphate (Method A) as the coupling reagent was shown to possess superiority relative to the reported use of di(1H-benzo[d][1,2,3]triazol-1-yl)phenyl phosphonate (Method B).