S. Bera et al., 3'-DEOXY-3'-(VINYLSULPHONYL)THYMIDINE - A NEW REACTIVE ANALOG OF AZT - ITS SYNTHESIS AND REACTIVITIES TOWARDS VARIOUS NUCLEOPHILES, Tetrahedron, 51(28), 1995, pp. 7857-7866
A reactive triatomic analogue of AZT, 3'-deoxy-3'-(vinylsulphonyl)thym
idine has been synthesised from easily accessible starting material. T
he vinyl-sulphone nucleoside was reacted with a variety of nucleophile
s to generate new classes of modified nucleosides where the functional
soups were attached to the C-3' of a nucleoside through flexible ethy
l sulphone spacer.