Gd. Vite et al., DIFFERENCES IN ANTIVIRAL ACTIVITIES FOR ISOMERS OF A FLUORINATED CYCLOBUTANE NUCLEOSIDE ANALOG, Bioorganic & medicinal chemistry letters, 3(6), 1993, pp. 1211-1214
Isomeric fluorinated cyclobutane nucleoside analogs (+/-)-2 and (+/-)-
3 were prepared via multi-step syntheses. Compound 2 is a potent inhib
itor of herpes viruses in cell culture assays, while the configuration
al isomer 3 is devoid of antiviral activity.