Simplified Liquid-Phase Preparation of Four Decadeoxyribonucleotides and their Preliminary Spectroscopic Characterization

Article abstract of DOI:10.1002/hlca.19820650803

Four self-complementary decadeoxyribonucleotides, dApTpApTpApTpApTpApT,dApTpApTpCpGpApTpApT, dApTpApTpGpCpApTpApT and dApApApApApTpTpTpTpT, were chemically synthesized by the phosphotriester procedure.Efforts were concentrated on keeping the procedure as simple as possible, concomitant with obtaining high-purity products at each step of the process.The decamers were elaborated from the 3'-end, starting with a 3'-O-benzoylated monomer according to the scheme: monomer + monomer -> dimer + dimer -> tetramer + dimer -> hexamer + tetramer -> decamer.Putity of intermediates and of the fully blocked decamers were monitored by chromatography and by 300-MHz 1H-NMR. spectroscopy.The deblocked decadeoxyribonucleotides were characterized by their UV., CD., and 1H-NMR. spectra.