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Synthesis and properties of DNA analogs consisting of the benzene-phosphate backbone
1 Department of Biomolecular Science, Faculty of Engineering, Gifu University, Yanagido, Gifu 501-1193, Japan, 2 Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science, Shinshu University, 3-1-1 Asahi, Matsumoto, Nagano 390-8621, Japan
This paper describes DNA analog synthesis consisting of the benzene-phosphate backbone, of which the monomer units are built from benzene-core units connected via a biaryl-like axis to the nucleobases. It was found that the duplex comprised of the analogs had a non-helical structure and was thermally more stable than the corresponding natural DNA duplex.