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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 07, 2000
Filed:
Jul. 27, 1994
Eugen Uhlmann, Glashutten, DE;
Anuschirwan Peyman, Kelkheim, DE;
Gerard O'Malley, Newtown, PA (US);
Matthias Helsberg, Kelkheim, DE;
Irvin Winkler, Liederbach, DE;
Hoechst Aktiengesellschaft, Frankfurt am Main, DE;
Abstract
The invention relates to compounds of the formula I ##STR1## where R.sup.1 is H, alkyl, acyl, aryl, or a phosphate residue; R.sup.2 is H, OH, alkoxy, NH.sub.2, or halogen; B is a base customary in nucleotide chemistry; a is O or CH.sub.2 ; n is an integer from 1 to 100; W=O, S or Se; V=O, S, or NH; Y=O, S, NH, or CH.sub.2 ; Y'=O, S, NH, or alkylene; X=OH or SH; U=OH, SH, SeH, alkyl, alkoxy, aryl, aryloxy, or amine, and Z=OH, SH, SeH, an optionally substituted radical from the group comprising alkyl, aryl, heteroaryl, alkoxy, or amino, or a group which favors intracellular uptake or serves as the label of a DNA probe or attacks the target nucleic acid during hybridization, where if Z=OH, SH, CH.sub.3, or OC.sub.2 H.sub.5, at least one of the groups X, Y, Y', V, or W is not OH or O or R.sup.1 is not H; a process for their preparation and their use as inhibitors of gene expression, as probes for detecting nucleic acids and as aids in molecular biology.