Kim E-K, Krishnamurthy R
Department of Chemistry, The Scripps Research Institute, 10550 North Torrey Pines Rd, California.
Chem Commun (Camb). 2015 Apr 4;51(26):5618-21. doi: 10.1039/c5cc00111k.
An intramolecular nucleosidation approach provides easy access to orotidine in high yields. Notably, orotate itself is used as a leaving group at the anomeric position. This method has the potential for facile access to derivatives of orotidine of therapeutic interest, with implications for prebiotic formation of nucleosides.