A new 2′-hydroxyl protecting group for the automated synthesis of oligoribonucleotides

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We have developed a new type of 2′-hydroxyl protecting group for the automated machine synthesis of RNA oligomers: a 2-hydroxylsophthalate formaldehyde acetal (HIFA). The unique feature of this protecting group is that, as the bis ester, it is relatively stable to the acidic conditions that are used for repeated removal of dimethoxytrityl groups during chain elongation, but the final deprotection step In alkali, which cleaves the chain from the support and removes the base and phosphate protecting groups, converts it to the bis carboxylate and this can be removed relatively rapidly by treatment with mild acid. Conversion of the bis ester to the bis carboxylic acid increases the rate of acid-catalyzed hydrolysis of the acetal by 42-fold at pH 1, and, possibly, by 1320-fold at pH 3. The bis ester is 112 times more stable than the 1-(2-fluorophenyl)-4-methoxypipeiidin-4-yl group(Fpmp) towards hydrolysis at pH 1, while the bis acid is only 2.35 times more stable than Fpmp at pH 3. In synthesis of the dimers UpU and UpG, with a coupling time of 5 min, the dimethoxytrityl cation assay indicated coupling yields of >98%. © 1995 Oxford University Press.

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Rastogi, H., & Usher, D. A. (1995). A new 2′-hydroxyl protecting group for the automated synthesis of oligoribonucleotides. Nucleic Acids Research, 23(23), 4872–4877. https://doi.org/10.1093/nar/23.23.4872

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