Synthesis of racemic carbocyclic cyclopropanoid nucleoside analogues

Article abstract of DOI:10.1016/0040-4020(95)00367-H

As further representatives of a novel class of carbocyclic nucleoside analogues (±)-cis- and (±)-trans-(2-hydroxymethylcyclopropyl)-uracil, -thymine, and -inosine were synthesized from the corresponding dialkyl 1,2-cyclopropane dicarboxylates.