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Pouya Haratipour1, Corinne Minard1, Maryam Nakhjiri1
1Department of Chemistry, Dana and David Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, U.S.A.
Abstract:
Individual diastereomers of CXY bisphosphonate analogues of dNTPs or NTPs are useful chemical stereoprobes to investigate interactions within the chiral active site environment of enzymes such as polymerases and kinases. We previously reported synthetic access to β,γ-CHX-dGTPs (X = F or Cl) via a bisphosphonate synthon with an (R)-methyl mandelate auxiliary and have extended this approach to dTTP and dATP analogues. As removal of the chiral auxiliary by (Pd/C) hydrogenolysis is incompatible with the cytosine heterocycle and also with X = Br, we have now designed bisphosphonate synthons using (R)-(+)-α-ethylbenzylamine or methyl (R)-(-)-phenylglycine auxiliaries and equipped with an o-nitrobenzyl ester protecting group allowing photochemical deprotection. These new synthons have made possible the first syntheses of individual dCTP and monobromo-substituted dNTP β,γ-CHX diastereomers.
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