10.1021/ol0521432
The research focuses on the selective diphosphorylation, dithiodiphosphorylation, triphosphorylation, and trithiotriphosphorylation of unprotected carbohydrates and nucleosides using solid-phase synthesis. The purpose of this study was to develop a method for the selective synthesis of these compounds, which are challenging to produce due to the lack of regioselectivity in traditional solution-phase methods. The researchers used aminomethyl polystyrene resin-bound linkers of p-acetoxybenzyl alcohol, which were subjected to reactions with diphosphitylating and triphosphitylating reagents to yield polymer-bound reagents. These were then reacted with unprotected carbohydrates and nucleosides to produce monosubstituted nucleoside and carbohydrate diphosphates, dithiodiphosphates, triphosphates, and trithiotriphosphates with high regioselectivity. The conclusions of the research highlight the advantages of the solid-phase approach, including the production of monosubstituted derivatives, high selectivity, facile isolation and purification of products, and the trapping of byproducts on resins. The chemicals used in the process included phosphorus trichloride, 3-hydroxypropionitrile, diisopropylamine, water, and 1H-tetrazole, among others, to synthesize the diphosphitylating and triphosphitylating reagents, as well as various unprotected nucleosides and carbohydrates for the reactions.
10.1039/c1ob05247k
The research aims to develop a facile synthesis method for hydroxymethylcytosine (hmC)-containing oligonucleotides (ODNs) and investigate their reactivity upon osmium oxidation. The study synthesizes hmC-containing ODNs using a straightforward route starting from thymidine and involving protection, bromination, and amination steps, ultimately converting the nucleoside into phosphoramidite form for DNA autosynthesizer use. The synthesized ODNs form stable duplexes with complementary DNA, exhibiting similar melting temperatures and enzymatic digestion properties to methylated counterparts. Osmium oxidation, a method previously used for detecting 5-methylcytosine (mC), is tested on hmC-containing ODNs under specific reaction conditions, revealing that hmC is oxidized as efficiently as mC, forming a stable ternary complex. The study concludes that osmium oxidation is a viable method for detecting hmC in DNA, potentially advancing epigenetic studies. Key chemicals used include thymidine, acetic anhydride, N-bromosuccinimide, 3-hydroxypropionitrile, phosphorus oxychloride, ammonia, di(n-butyl)formamidine, potassium osmate, potassium hexacyanoferrate(III), and bipyridine.