Conception and Synthesis of Oxabicyclic Nucleoside Phosphonates as Internucleotidic Phosphate Surrogates in Antisense

Juan C Salinas1, Jeff Yu2, Michael Østergaard2

  • 1Department of Chemistry , Université de Montréal , P.O. Box 6128, Downtown Station , Montréal , QC H3C 3J7 , Canada.

Organic Letters
|August 28, 2018
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