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Synthesis of purine antiviral agents, hypoxanthine and 6-mercaptopurine
Sariri,Khalili
, p. 1053 - 1055 (2002)
Some potentially biologically active 6-substituted purine derivatives have been synthesized from simple organic reagents. The reaction of urea with ethyl cyanoacetate gave 6-aminopyrimidine-2,4-dione which was converted in two steps into purine derivative, xanthine. The latter was treated with formamide at 200°C to obtain hypoxanthine. The chlorination of hypoxanthine with POCl3 gave 6-chloropurine which was converted into 6-mercaptopurine via reaction with thiourea in acetonitrile, followed by treatment with boiling ethanol.