The effect of ring size of four-to six-membered cyclic β-amino acid on the hybridization properties of pyrrolidinyl peptide nucleic acid with an alternating R/β peptide backbone is reported. The cyclobutane derivatives (acbcPNA) show the highest T m and excellent specificity with cDNA and RNA.
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