Sakander Norein, Ahmed Qazi Naveed
Natural Product and Medicinal Chemistry Division, CSIR-Indian Institute of Integrative Medicine, Jammu-180001, India.
Academy of Scientific and Innovative Research (AcSIR), Ghaziabad-201002, India.
Org Biomol Chem. 2025 Jan 15;23(3):579-588. doi: 10.1039/d4ob01788a.
An expedient solvent-free synthesis of 2-deoxy-2-bromo-hexopyrano-β-nucleosides stereo- and regioselectively from protected glycals and unactivated nucleobases using cheaper and easily available reagent systems has been developed. The synthesis is mediated by a Lewis acid and is solvent-free. The substrate scope of the reaction was analysed with ether, ester and silyl-protected glycals as donors and different pyrimidine and purine bases were taken into consideration. This method further finds application in the synthesis of 2-deoxynucleosides.