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JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY
Volume 132, Issue 46, Pages 16677-16688Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/ja108197s
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- Harvard Origins Initiative
- MRC [MC_UP_A024_1009] Funding Source: UKRI
- Medical Research Council [MC_UP_A024_1009] Funding Source: researchfish
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The recent development of a sequential, high-yielding route to activated pyrimidine nucleotides, under conditions thought to be prebiotic, is an encouraging step toward the greater goal of a plausible prebiotic pathway to RNA and the potential for an RNA world. However, this synthesis has led to a disparity in the methodology available for stepwise construction of the canonical pyrimidine and purine nucleotides. To address this problem, and further explore prebiotically accessible chemical systems, we have developed a high-yielding, aqueous, one-pot, multicomponent reaction that tethers masked-sugar moieties to prebiotically plausible purine precursors. A pH-dependent three-component reaction system has been discovered that utilizes key nucleotide synthons 2-aminooxazole and 5-aminoimidazoles, which allows the first divergent purine/pyrimidine synthesis to be proposed. Due to regiospecific aminoimidazole tethering, the pathway allows N9 purination only, thus suggesting the first prebiotically plausible mechanism for regiospecific N9 purination.
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