Carbocyclic ring-enlarged oxetanocin analogues

Article abstract of DOI:10.1016/0040-4039(92)80004-4

Carbocyclic versions of 2′,3′-dideoxy-3′C-hydroxymethyl nucleosides with adenine, guanine, uracil and cytosine bases were synthesized from a common cyclopentenone precursor. The extra hydroxymethyl moiety was introduced by photochemical addition of methan