6-Azauridine, a nucleoside with unusual ribose conformation. The molecular and crystal structure |
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Authors: | C H Schwalbe W Saenger |
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Affiliation: | Max-Planck-Institut für experimentelle Medizin Abteilung Chemie, 34 Göttingen, Germany |
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Abstract: | The cytostatic analogue ribo-6-azauridine crystallizes in the orthorhombic space group P212121 with eight molecules per unit cell of dimensions . A trial structure was obtained by direct methods. Least-squares refinement of co-ordinates and anisotropic thermal parameters based on 1998 reflections measured on a four-circle diffractometer led to a discrepancy index R = 4.0%. Like uridine, 6-azauridine has the anti conformation about the glycosidic bond and a C(3′)-endo sugar pucker. Unlike uridine, it exhibits a close approach of N(6) to C(2′) at only 2.814 and 2.844 Å in the two independent molecules, and a C(5′)(5′) bond that is gauche to C(4′)O(1′) but trans to C(4′)C(3′); this conformation about a C(4′)C(5′) bond has never been observed before for C(3′)-endo puckered riboses in the crystalline state. The crystal structure displays a pseudo-A face centering and very similar conformational parameters for the two independent molecules. Every OH and NH group in the structure serves as a proton donor in a hydrogen bond, including an unusual N(3)—H(3) … O(1′) link. Molecular orbital calculations by the extended Hückel method indicate that from uridine to 6-azauridine the net charge changes sign at ring positions 5 and 6 and disappears at 1. |
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