Jc. Litten et al., BICYCLO-OLIGONUCLEOTIDES WITH INVERTED CONFIGURATION AT C(5') - SYNTHESIS AND PROPERTIES, Bioorganic & medicinal chemistry letters, 5(12), 1995, pp. 1231-1234
5'-Epi-bicyclothymidine and oligodeoxynucleotides thereof were prepare
d using solid phase phosphoramidite chemistry. W-melting curves with c
omplementary DNA and RNA furnish values of Delta T-m/mod. of -2.7 degr
ees to -6.5 degrees C compared to the natural reference system. The re
duction of pairing affinity can directly be correlated with a change o
f the orientation of the C(4')-C(5') bond in the duplexes.