Appeal No. 95-0865 Application 08/08/007,950 (a) chloro, bromo, iodo, (b) an aryl sulfonyloxy group, (c) a substituted alkyl sulfonyloxy group, (d) a nitro-substituted benzene sulfonyloxy group, and (e) fluorosulfonyloxy, and (2) "P" or "Prot" is a protecting group (Z ) selected from 1 the group consisting of: (a) t-butyldimethylsilyl, (b) t-butyldiphenylsilyl, (c) (tri-phenylmethyl)dimethylsilyl, (d) methyldiisopropylsilyl, (e) triisopropylsilyl, (f) benzyl, (g) p-methoxybenzyl, (h) trityl, (i) 4-monomethoxytrityl, (j) 4,4'-dimethoxytrityl and (k) acyl groups of the formula O 5 )))))C)) R5 wherein R is 5 i) straight or branched chain alkyl of 1 to 6 carbon atoms or ii) phenyl. Slusarchyk differs from the invention defined by claim 25 in that Slusarchyk does not describe the use of the purine in its tetraalkylammonium salt form. Rather, Slusarchyk describes the - 25 -Page: Previous 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 NextLast modified: November 3, 2007