Reported here are synthetic routes to pyrophosphates linking riboflavin with various nucleosides. The focus is on a flavin-uracil dinucleotide having a biotin tag on the uracil, a molecule that has potential value in the selection of RNA enzymes that catalyze the template- directed polymerization of RNA in the 3′-to-5′ direction, which is the direction opposite that catalyzed by standard protein polymerases. Two detailed procedures are presented ...