Abstract
Potassium tert-butoxide in hexamethyl phosphoramide and dimethyl formamide provides an excellent catalyst for the reaction of a 3'-hydroxyl or a 5'-hydroxyl group of a nucleoside with an appropriate nucleoside phosphorofluoridate to yield the dinucleoside phosphate. This paper describes the experiments leading to the development of this reaction together with the synthesis of thymidylyl-(5' leads to 3')-thymidine (dT-dT).
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