Anhydrouridines react with aliphatic amines to give N-alkyl isocytosines, but reported procedures often demand very long reaction times and can be low yielding, with narrow scope. A modified procedure for such reactions has been developed, using microwave irradiation, significantly reducing reaction time and allowing facile access to a diverse range of novel nucleosides on the gram scale. The method has been used to prepare a precursor to a novel analogue of lysidine, a naturally occurring iminonucleoside found in RNA.
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Department of Biological Sciences, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.
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Department of Biotechnology, Brainware University, Barasat, West Bengal, India.
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