A. Waldner et al., SYNTHESIS OF OLIGODEOXYRIBONUCLEOTIDES CONTAINING DIMERS WITH CARBAMATE MOIETIES AS REPLACEMENT OF THE NATURAL PHOSPHODIESTER LINKAGE, Bioorganic & medicinal chemistry letters, 4(3), 1994, pp. 405-408
The synthesis of thymidine dimers containing both possible regioisomer
ic carbamate moieties in place of the natural phosphodiester backbone
is described. These dimers were incorporated in oligodeoxy-ribonucleot
ides and melting temperatures (T-m) of the DNA/RNA and DNA/DNA duplexe
s are reported. In addition the nuclease resistance of these single st
rands were determined.