Protection of both amine moieties of 2,6-diaminopurine 2'-deoxyribosid
e as a dimethylformamidine group did not proove feasable, while protec
tion with a phenoxyacetyl group afforded only a mono-protected analogu
e 5. This analogue can be incorporated into oligonucleotides without d
ifficulties. However, oligonucleotides with diaminopurine substituted
for adenine did not yield more stable duplexes for the two sequences t
ested here.