Inspired by the pharmacological interest generated by 6-substituted purine roscovitine for cancer treatment, 5-aminoimidazole-4-carboxamidine precursors containing a cyanamide unit were prepared by condensation of 5-amino-N-cyanoimidazole-4-carbimidoyl cyanides with a wide range of primary amines. When these amidine precursors were combined with acids, a fast cascade cyclization occurred at room temperature, af...
New fluorescent nucleobase analogues (FBAs) are emerg-ing as extraordinarily useful tools for DNA labelling tech-nologies. The highly fluorescent adenine analogue 2 aminopurine (2AP) is still the most used within the few hundreds of newly FBAs synthesized, but its excitation in the UV region demands for high energy sources endanger-ing living cells. New and highly fluorescent 2AP deriva-tives, 2-amino-6-cyanopu...