Gy. Wang et De. Bergstrom, SYNTHESIS OF OLIGONUCLEOTIDES CONTAINING N2-(5-CARBOXYPENTYL)-2'-DEOXYGUANOSINE AND IPYRID-4-YL-CARBOXAMIDO)ETHYLTHIO]-2'-DEOXYURIDINE, Tetrahedron letters, 34(42), 1993, pp. 6721-6724
Synthesis of 2'-deoxyguanosine tethered at N-2 to a carboxypentyl grou
p and 2'-deoxyuridine tethered through C-5 to a bipyridine is describe
d. The modified nucleosides were converted to the corresponding phosph
oramidites and incorporated into mono- and di-modified oligonucleotide
s. The carboxypentyl group was introduced in the ester form into oligo
nucleotides and recovered by hydrolysis with aqueous triethylamine.