Tetrahedron

Expeditious synthesis of aziridine-based cofactor mimics

LR Comstock, SR Rajski

Index: Comstock, Lindsay R; Rajski, Scott R Tetrahedron, 2002 , vol. 58, # 30 p. 6019 - 6026

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Abstract

S-Adenosyl-l-methionine mimics were synthesized in a linear fashion highlighting methodology that bypasses the need for adenine base protection. These aziridine-based cofactor mimics are envisioned as useful biochemical tools and potential therapeutic agents whose mechanism of action hinges upon aberrant methyltransferase enzymes. Aziridination of the 5′ position of adenosine was effected by convergence of suitably protected 5′- ...