Ls. Jeong et al., PARTICIPATION OF SULFUR OCCURRED DURING THE MITSUNOBU REACTION - SYNTHESIS OF NOVEL ISODIDEOXYTHIONUCLEOSIDES, Journal of the Chemical Society. Perkin transactions. I (Print), (20), 1998, pp. 3325-3326
Novel isodideoxythionucleosides have been synthesized from our versati
le intermediate, L-4-thioarabitol derivative 5 using the Mitsunobu rea
ction as a key step. It is found that the sulfur atom of the 4-thiofur
anose derivative takes part in the Mitsunobu reaction.