Carbocyclic nucleosides have been of great interest asantiviral agents and in studies in thearea of antisense technology. The recent finding that thereplace
ment of a single 2'-deoxynucleoside in DNA by a carba analogue does not alter theWatson-Crick base pairing,yet at the sa
me ti
me provides a che
mically and enzy
matically stable"glycosidic" linkage, ledus to exa
mine this class of co
mpound as enzy
me inhibitors of theDNA-repair enzy
mes involvedin oxidative da
mage. We now report the synthesis and incorporationinto oligo
meric DNA viasuitable derivatives, the carbanucleosid
es8-oxo-7,8-dihydro-2'-deoxycarbainosine, 8-oxo-7,8-dihydro-2'-deoxycarbaguanosine, and 2'-deoxyaristero
mycin.Aristero
mycin (
1) was deoxygenated at the 2'-position as follows. Treat
ment of
1with TPDSCl
2 gave the 3',5'-protectedderivative
3 (76%) which on phenylthiocarbonylation at the2'-position gave
4 in 51% yield.The latter co
mpound on reduction with Bu
3SnH ledto the 2'-deoxy derivative
5 (90%).Benzoylation followed by deprotection with TBAF in THF then gavethe desired inter
mediate(
6) in 65% yield.
N2-Isobutyryl-8-oxo-7,8-dihydro-2'-deoxycarbaguanosine(
16) was synthesizedfro
m 3-chloro-2'-deoxycarbainosine (
9). Treat
ment of
9, either with hydrazine followed bycatalytic reduction of the 2-hydrazino derivative or with1-(2-nitrophenyl)ethyla
mine followedby photolysis of the resulting 2-substituted derivative, in bothinstances gave the desired 2'-deoxycarbaguanosine (
12) in ~50% overall yield in eachcase. Bro
mination of
12 gave
13(90%)which, when treated with BnONa in DMSO at 65
mages/entities/deg.gif">C, led to the8-benzyloxy derivative
14(46%). Isobutyrylation of
14 followed by catalyticreduction then afforded
16. 8-Oxo-7,8-dihydro-2'-deoxycarbainosine (
23) was prepared in four steps.Bro
mination of 2'-deoxyaristero
mycin (
19) at the 8-position gave
20 (>95%)which was converted to the 8-benzyloxy derivative
21 (61%) using BnONa/DMSO at 80
mages/entities/deg.gif">C. Reductivedebenzylation of
21 then led to 8-oxo-7,8-dihydro-2'-deoxyaristero
mycin (~100%) which, when treated withadenosine dea
minase,provided the desired carbainosine derivative
23 inquantitative yield. Co
mpounds
6,
16,and
23 were converted to their respective 5'-
O-DMT,3'-
O-[(2-cyanoethoxy)-(
N,
N-diisopropyla
mino)phosphine] derivatives (
8,
18, and
25)in excellent overall yields. The latter were then usedtosynthesize a series of DNA oligo
mers by auto
matedprocedures.