A total and versatile synthesis of a new series of carbocyclic
nucleoside analogues which are derivatives of purine with a 1,2-disubstituted
cyclopentene ring (I) is described. The
6-chloropurine derivatives 3 and 9 were prepared by construction of the
heterocyclic base about the primary amino group of the (±)-cis-2-amino-3-cyclopentenylmethanol (1), which was synthesized in good yield
from cyclopentadiene in four steps. The substitution of a chlorine
atom in the compounds 3 and 9 by
an amino group (compounds 4 and 10) and by a hydroxyl group (compounds 5 and 11) was
carried out with NH4OH or with NaOH, respectively.
amino alcohol - nucleosides - heterocycles - cyclization - nucleophilic aromatic substitution