Organic Communications

Volume 1, Issue 2 (2008)

  ORIGINAL ARTICLE
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Synthesis of new C 6 substituted peptidyl nucleosides. A mechanistic study

Mohamed M. Changalov and Dimiter D. Petkov, Org. Commun. (2008), 1:2; 17-23

Laboratory of BioCatalysis, Institute of Organic Chemistry with Centre of Phytochemistry Bulgarian Academy of Sciences 1113 Sofia , Bulgaria

Abstract:The synthesis of four new peptidyl nucleosides is reported. The kinetic data obtained for the transesterification of 2'/3'-O-benzyloxycarbonyl-L-p-nitrophenylalanyl 5'-O-trityl ribonucleosides which contain different substituents at C 6 position of the purine residue indicates for different mechanisms of the transesterification reaction. The peptidyl nucleosides with an amino group at C 6 position and those lacking such group at that position have two distinctive mechanisms of transesterification .

Key words : Nucleosides; transesterification; tautomerization.