Nucleic Acids Research, 1990, Vol. 18, No. 11 3327-3331
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CHEMISTRY |
Use of new phosphonylating and coupling agents in the synthesis of oligodeoxyribonucleotides via the H-phosphonate approach
Laboratory of Bioorganic Chemistry, Department of Industrial Chemistry, Chiba Institute of Technology Tsudanuma, Narashino, Chiba 275 1Department of Virology and Parasitology, Yamaguchi University of Medicine Ube 755, Japan
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Received January 31, 1990. Accepted April 19, 1990.
New phosphonylating and coupling agents for the synthesis of oligodeoxyribonucleotides via Hphosphonate approach have been developed. Tris(1,1,1,3,3,3-hexafluoro-2-propyl) phosphite, prepared by the reaction of lithium salt of 1,1,1,3,3,3-hexafluoro-2-propoxide with PCI3, reacts with deoxyribonucleosides in the presence of a catalytic amount of triethylamine to produce in the high yield the corresponding deoxyribonucleoside 3'- phosphonate units. The use of a new coupling reagent, 1,3-dimethyl-2-chloro-imidazolinium chloride (DMCI) for the internucleotidic H-phosphonate bond formation via the H-phosphonate approach is also discussed in detail.