Synthesis and Characterization of Stereoisomers of 5,6-Dihydro-5,6-Dihydroxythymidine

摘要

Six products were isolated by reverse phase HPLC from the reaction of thymidinewith osmium tetroxide. Four of the products were identified as stereoisomers of 5,6-dihydro-5,6-dihydroxythymidine (TG). The absolute configurations of these four compounds (from the shortest to the longest HPLC retention times) were determined by two-dimensional nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy to be (-)-trans-5S,6S-,(+)-trans-5R,6R-,(-)-cis-5R,6S-, and (+)-cis-5S,6R-5,6-dihydro-5,6-dihydroxythymidine. The other two products were dimers with unknown linking sites. Parameters of the mass and nuclear magnetic resonance spectra are reported