Synthesis of Pyranose Nucleosides

Investigation of the kinetics of degradation of hexopyranosylated cytosine nucleosides using liquid chromatography

Liquid chromatography was used to follow the degradation of hexopyranosylated cytosine nucleosides in buffers of acid, neutral and alkaline pH and of constant ionic strength. The compounds were found to degrade by hydrolysis to cytosine and/or by deamination to the corresponding uracil nucleosides. Degradation in acid is influenced by the number of sugar hydroxyl groups, presence of sugar double bonds and the type of anomer. Stability of some of the compounds was compared with that of related thymine nucleosides. Temperature studies support a unimolecular mechanism of hydrolysis at pH 1.22.

Liquid chromatographic separation of hexopyranosylated cytosine nucleosides from their degradation products

Development of a liquid chromatographic method which can separate each of a series of hexopyranosylated cytosine nucleosides from their degradation products formed at acid, neutral and basic pH is described. Both silica-based reverse-phase and polymer columns were examined. Influence of the mobile phase pH, ion-pairing agent, concentration of the buffer and type and concentration of organic modifier were systematically investigated. The concentration of the ion-pairing agent and the buffer were found to have a major effect on selectivity. Samples were finally analyzed on a poly(styrene-divinylbenzene), PLRP-S 100 A (8 microns) 250 x 4.6 mm I.D. column at 60 degrees C and with a mobile phase consisting of acetonitrile-sodium octanesulphonate (pH 2.5; 0.02 M)-potassium phosphate buffer (pH 2.5; 0.2 M)-water (X:25:50:25-X, v/v, where X is variable).