1998 Volume 56 Issue 12 Pages 1036-1047
This mini review deals with the synthesis and their properties of a new type of nucleosides, so-called C-azanucleosides, along with the synthetic method for their related compounds, azafuranopentose. The DNA and RNA have been known to play an important role in the protein synthesis and the life processes. The azanucleosides seem very attractive to scientists as a new class of DNA and RNA subunit compounds.