Sloan-Kettering Institute for Cancer Research

Research, Incorporated

Uri Reichman

Kyoichi A Watanabe

Jack J Fox

Carlos A Lopez

Chung K Chu

Kosaku Hirota

Veterinarian composition for the treatment of herpes virus in animals comprising a pyrimidine nucleoside, or veterinarianically acceptable acid addition salte thereof, of the formula ##STR1## wherein A is OR.sup.3, SR.sup.3, NR.sup.3 R.sup.4 or NHacyl wherein R.sup.3 and R.sup.4 are the same or different and are hydrogen, lower alkyl of 1 to 7 carbon atoms, aralkyl, or aryl;

Anti-herpes virus compositions containing 5-substituted

Pyrimidine nucleosides exhibiting anti-viral and anti-tumor effects have the formula ##STR1## wherein A is OR.sup.3, SR.sup.3, NR.sup.3 R.sup.4 or NHacyl wherein R.sup.3 and R.sup.4 are the same or different and are hydrogen, lower alkyl of 1 to 7 carbon atoms, aralkyl, or aryl;

5-Substituted

There is provided a novel process for pyrimidine to pyrimidine transformations by the displacement of the 1,2,3-portion of a pyrimidine by a 1,3-ambident nucleophile. The novel process requires that the 1 and 3 nitrogens of the pyrimidine moiety be substituted. The novel process makes available, inter alia, novel uracils, simple methods of radioisotopically labeling pyrimidine nuclei, a simple and inexpensive method of preparing the important antiviral and antileukemic material pseudoisocytidine and its new active analog 2'-deoxypseudoisocytidine.

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