A Novel Approach to Khantiokerically Pure Carbocyclic Nucleoside Analogues

Abstract
Starting from (+)-endo-5-norbornen-2-yl acetate (1) (-)-1-[(1R, 3R, 4R)-3-hydroxy-4-hydroxymethylcyclopentyl]-1H, 3H-pyrinidine-2, 4-dione (7) was synthesized in a 6-step sequence.