ChemInform Abstract: Stereoselective Synthesis of Pyrrolo(2,3‐d)pyrimidine α‐ and β‐D‐Ribonucleosides from Anomerically Pure D‐Ribofuranosyl Chlorides: Solid‐Liquid Phase‐Transfer Glycosylation and 15N NMR Spectra.

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Solid-liquid phase-transfer glycosylation (KOH, tris[2-(2-methoxyethoxy)ethye]amine ( = TDA-1), MeCN) of pyrrolo[2,3-d]pyrimidines such as 3a and 3b with an equimolar amount of 5-O-[(1,1 -dimethylethyl)dimethylsilyl]-2,3-O-(1-methylethylidene)-α-D-ribofuranosyl chloride (1) [6] gave the protected β-D-nucleosides 4a and 4b, respectively, stereoselectively (Scheme). The β-D-anomer 2 [6] yielded the corresponding α-D-nucleosides 5a and 5b with traces of the β-D-compounds. The 6-substituted 7-deazapurine nucleosides 6a, 7a, and 8 were converted into tubercidin (10) or its α-D-anomer (11). Spin-lattice relaxation measurements of anomeric ribonucleosides revealed that T1 values of HC(8) in the α-D-series are significantly increased compared to HC(8) in the β-D-series while the opposite is true for T1 of HC(1′). 15N-NMR data of 6-substituted 7-deazapurine D-ribofuranosides were assigned and compared with those of 2′-deoxy compounds. Furthermore, it was shown that 7-deaza-2′deoxyadenosine ( = 2′-deoxytubercidin; 12) is protonated at N(1), whereas the protonation site of 7-deaza-2′-deoxyguanosine (20) is N(3).