K. Burgess et al., SYNTHESIS OF AN OXYAMIDE LINKED NUCLEOTIDE DIMER AND INCORPORATION INTO ANTISENSE OLIGONUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCES, Journal of the Chemical Society, Chemical Communications, (8), 1994, pp. 915-916
Two derivatives of thymidine, a 5'-protected 3'-hydroxylamine and 5'-c
arboxy-3'-protected compound, were prepared and coupled to form an oxy
amide-linked dinucleotide analogue; this dimer was incorporated into a
n oligodeoxynucleotide then shown to anneal to complementary DNA with
nearly the same affinity as the natural sequence.