Glycosylation reaction of unprotected sugars with hydroxyalkylthymine.

Under mild conditions (Lewis acid/solvent/room temperature), the reaction of unprotected glucose, deoxyribose or xylose with hydroxylalkylthymine gives selectively nucleoside analogs with a spacer arm between sugar and base moiety. Experimental conditions (Lewis acid, solvent) for this new strategy leading to nucleoside analogs synthesis are discussed.

A fourfold coordinated point defect in silicon.

Vacancies, interstitials, and Frenkel pairs are considered to be the basic point defects in silicon. We challenge this point of view by presenting density functional calculations that show that there is a stable point defect in silicon that has fourfold coordination and is lower in energy than the traditional defects.