The carbocyclic nucleoside 3-deazaaristeromycin has shown biological promise but a library of its derivatives upon which to expand this property is lacking. To address this situation, the synthesis of the two diastereomers of 2'-fluoro-3-deazaaristeromycin is described in a multistep convergent process that calls upon D-ribose for construction of the cyclopentyl fluoro units. (C) 2012 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
The carbocyclic nucleoside 3-deazaaristeromycin has shown biological promise but a library of its derivatives upon which to expand this property is lacking. To address this situation, the synthesis of the two diastereomers of 2'-fluoro-3-deazaaristeromycin is described in a multistep convergent process that calls upon D-ribose for construction of the cyclopentyl fluoro units. (C) 2012 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.