Ls. Jeong et al., SYNTHESIS AND ANTIVIRAL ACTIVITY OF APIO DIDEOXY NUCLEOSIDES WITH AZIDO OR AMINO SUBSTITUENT, Nucleosides & nucleotides, 17(8), 1998, pp. 1473-1487
Novel apio dideoxynucleosides with azido or amino substituent synthesi
zed starting from 1,3-dihydroxyacetone utilizing an acid-catalyzed 1,4
-conjugated addition as a key step and evaluated for antiviral activit
y. Unfortunately, they were found to be neither active against HIV-1,
HSV-1,2 and poliovirus nor toxic.