Suzuki coupling reactions of 6-(azolyl, alkylthio and fluoro)purine 2'-deoxynucleosides and nucleosides

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Jiangqiong Liu, jiangqiong@chem.byu.edu and Morris J. Robins, morris_robins@byu.edu. Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Brigham Young University, Provo, UT 84602
Recently, 6-arylpurine ribonucleosides have been shown to possess cytostatic activity. We now report that 6-(azolyl, alkylthio and fluoro)purine nucleosides undergo Ni/Pd-mediated C-C cross-coupling of these purine derivatives with arylboronic acids to give good yields of 6-arylpurine nucleosides. This procedure works well with both electron-rich and electron-poor arylboronic acids.