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Nucleotides and nucleic acids: A source of inspiration for the development of new, phosphorus-centered functional groups
University of Rouen, Laboratoire des Fonctions Azotées et Oxygénées Complexes, UMR 6014 CNRS, IRCOF, rue Tesnières, F - 76821 - Mont Saint Aignan, France
Synthetic methodologies aiming at the creation of new phosphorus-centered functional groups are reported, as well as applications to the field of nucleotide chemistry. Thus, difluorophosphonothioate-based, ionic reagents 3b and 3d are shown to allow the stereocontrolled and efficient synthesis of phosphonodifluoromethyl analogues of nucleoside-3'-phosphates. An alternate, radical approach describes the use of hypophosphorous acid to stereoselectively link two furanosyl units in positions 3 and 5, and to provide an access to
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-difluoro-H-phosphinates. These intermediates are shown to be precursors to the corresponding fluorinated phosphonic acids, phosphonothioic acids and variously substituted phosphinates.