J. Kobe et al., PREPARATION AND UTILITY OF 5-BETA-D-RIBOFURANOSYL-1H-TETRAZOLE AS A KEY SYNTHON FOR C-NUCLEOSIDE SYNTHESIS, Nucleosides & nucleotides, 13(10), 1994, pp. 2209-2244
A synthesis of 5-beta-D-ribofuranosyl-1H-tetrazole (2) and 5-beta-D-ri
bo-furanosyl-1,3,4-oxadiazole-2(3H)-one (9) derivatives is described.
Ring transformations of 2 have been investigated in an effort to estab
lish the stability of this synthon for further use in dipolar cycloadd
ition reactions.