Satoshi Obika, Ken-ichiro Morio, Daishu Nanbu and Takeshi Imanishi
Novel bicyclic nucleoside analogues 3′-O,4′-C-methyleneribonucleosides 1 are conveniently prepared starting from uridine; the sugar puckering of 1 is found to be nearly in the S-conformation by means of PM3 calculations and 1H NMR studies.