Arbuzov reaction of phenyl phosphorodichloridite with an equivalent of allyl alcohol and tert-butyl alcohol produced phenyl allyl H-phosphonate and the subsequent ester-exchange with various nucleosides produced nucleoside allyl H-phosphonates. Antherton-Todd reaction of the nucleoside allyl H-phosphonates with 3¢-amino-3¢-deoxythymidine yielded dideoxyribonucleotide N3¢→P5¢ phosphoramidates, and the repetition of this procedure provided trideoxyribonucleotide N3¢→P5¢ phosphoramidates. The method can be used for the synthesis of oligodeoxyribonucleotide N3¢→P5¢ phosphoramidates without any protection for all nucleosides.Oligonucleotide N3¢→P5¢ phosphoramidates have been attracted considerable attention as a class of compounds of potential therapeutic value, 1-6 since these oligonucleotide analogues are resistant towards various nucleases 2,7 and hybridize to complementary DNA or RNA targets with much higher affinity than their natural congeners do. 2 Some synthetic methods of these phosphoramidates have been developed using phosphotriester chemistry, 8 via the Staudinger type of reaction, 9 or by the phosphoramidite method. 4 Gryaznov and co-workers have prepared oligonucleotide N3¢→P5¢ phosphoramidates via oxidative coupling of aminonucleosides with H-phosphonate diesters under Antherton-Todd oxidation conditions. 4,10-13 Stec and co-workers synthesized a kind of compounds by using 2-alkylamino-2-thio-1,3,2-oxathiaphospholanes 14 as the starting material. 15 H-phosphonates are useful intermediates in chemistry, and to find the new synthetic routes to these compounds constitutes a valuable target. In the past two decades, studies on H-phosphonate derivatives have greatly progressed. [16][17][18][19][20][21][22] Advances on the development of a comprehensive H-phosphonate methodology and the underlying chemistry for the preparation of biologically important phosphate esters and their analogues have been discussed by Stawinski and Kraszewski. 20 Stawinski and co-workers have developed H-phosphonate methods to synthesize dideoxynucleotide N3¢→P5¢ phosphoramidates through reaction of nucleoside H-phosphonate monoester with aminonucleoside in the presence of Me 3 SiCl and I 2 21 or exchange of aryl H-phosphonates with aminonucleoside and the following oxidation. 22 However, all these methods required the protection of functional groups in nucleosides. Here we would like to report a convenient and efficient synthesis of dideoxyribonucleotide N3¢→P5¢ phosphoramidates without any protection for nucleosides.Reaction of phenyl phosphorodichloridite (1) with one equivalent of allyl alcohol and one equivalent of tert-butyl alcohol in CH 2 Cl 2 at room temperature under nitrogen atmosphere provided phenyl allyl H-phosphonate diester (2) in 90% yield with minor diallyl H-phosphonate diester appearing (determined by 31 P NMR). The reaction could undergo the formation of the corresponding major tertbutyl phenyl allyl phosphite triester (1¢) and phenyl diallyl phosphate triester (2¢) intermediates, followed by Arbuzov rearrange...