2',3'-Cyclopropanated Nucleoside Dimers

Constantin G. Yannopoulos, Wenqiang Zhou, Peter T. Nower, Didier Péoc'h, Yogesh S. Sanghvi, George Just

Synlett · 1997 · 10 citations · 0 references

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Abstract

Syntheses of three novel conformationally rigid dimers containing cyclopropyl -amide and -sulfonamide functionalities are described. Their incorporation into an oligonucleotide sequence resulted in considerable lowering of the Tm's in binding to their complementary RNA sequences.