Chemical and chemoenzymatic routes to bridged homoarabinofuranosylpyrimidines: Bicyclic AZT analogues

• Sandeep Kumar,
• Jyotirmoy Maity,
• Banty Kumar,
• Sumit Kumar and
• Ashok K. Prasad

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2022, 18, 95–101, doi:10.3762/bjoc.18.10

• chemoenzymatic method was found to be superior over the chemical method in respect of the number of synthetic steps and overall yield of the final product. Keywords: bicyclic AZT analogues; bridged homoarabinofuranosylpyrimidine nucleosides; chemical pathway; Lipozyme® TL IM; regioselective enzymatic