“…The increased affinity of formacetal oligonucleotides to complementary RNA fragments can be further increased by substituting the 3 ′ -bridging oxygen with a sulfur atom when forming a thioacetal linkage (28) [73]. Based on the replacement of the phosphorus atom with a sulfur atom, a variety of modified oligonucleotides with sulfamate (29, 30) [74,75], sulfamide (31) [76,77], sulfonamide (32) [78], sulfonic (33), and dimethylene sulfide (34) bridging groups [79], often having interesting characteristics, have been obtained. However, when creating modified polymers, amide fragments (35)(36)(37)(38)(39)(40) are most often used as alternative acyclic linkages, allowing the internucleotide crosslinking to be configured in different ways [80][81][82][83].…”