文摘
The present study was aimed at gaining further insights into stereochemical and conformational featuresof the 4R and 4S diastereomers of spiroiminodihydantoin 2'-deoxyribonucleosides that have been shownto be the predominant singlet oxygen oxidation products of 2'-deoxyguanosine in aqueous solutions. Itmay be added that spiroiminodihydantoin derivatives are efficiently generated by one-electron and singletoxygen oxidation of the 8-oxo-7,8-dihydroguanine moiety of several nucleic acid components includingnucleosides, nucleotides, and oligonucleotides. The reported structural data on the pair of diastereomericspiroiminodihydantoin 2'-deoxyribonucleosides 1 and 2 are mostly inferred from extensive 1H and 13CNMR analyses including two-dimensional nuclear Overhauser effect measurements performed in bothD2O and dimethyl sulfoxide. This approach that has been shown previously to be suitable to assign thestereochemistry of the base moiety of oxidized pyrimidine nucleosides was completed by molecularmodeling and quantum mechanics studies. Thus, application of these two complementary approachestogether with the consideration of the results of a recent relevant quantum mechanic study has allowedthe assignment of the absolute stereoconfiguration of the C-4 carbon of diastereomers 1 and 2. In addition,information is provided on the conformational features of the 2-deoxyribose moiety and the orientationof the base around the N-glycosidic bond of both 2'-deoxyribonucleosides 1 and 2.