A. Laurent et al., HIGH-AFFINITY OF BACKBONE-MODIFIED ALPHA-ANOMERIC OLIGODEOXYNUCLEOTIDES FOR DNA AND RNA TARGETS, Nucleosides & nucleotides, 17(9-11), 1998, pp. 1645-1649
Methylphosphonate and various substituted phosphoramidate alpha-anomer
ic oligonucleotides were synthesized. We have investigated the chirali
ty effect of the internucleoside linkage and the influence of steric h
indrance around phosphorus on hybridization properties of these new al
pha-analogs.