Geh. Elgemeie et al., Nucleic acid components and their analogues: New synthesis of bicyclic thiopyrimidine nucleosides, NUCLEOS NUC, 19(4), 2000, pp. 723-733
A novel synthesis of condensed bicyclic thiopyrimidine glycosides utilising
1H-cyclopentapyrimidine-2(3H)-thiones and alpha-bromoglucose or alpha-brom
ogalactose tetraacetate as starting components is described.