“…A common synthetic intermediate for the growing family of aminoacyl sulfamoyl adenylates is 2Ј,3Ј-O-isopropylidene-5Ј-O-sulfamoyladenosine (1). This compound may be prepared directly from sulfamoyl chloride and a 2Ј,3Ј-acetal derivative of adenosine using NaH in DME as originally described by Shuman et al (47,48), or via an in situ formed 5Ј-Otributyltin ether (25,26). We found that high yields of 1 were obtained most conveniently using NaH/DME conditions and freshly prepared and recrystallized sulfamoyl chloride.…”