“…First, we focused on the preparation of hypoxanthine analogue 13 , which was prepared by the alkaline hydrolysis of 2 . Because of the low stability of tert -butyl at position N 7 in acidic solutions, we cannot afford to carry out this hydrolysis with HCOOH, which has been utilized for analogous 7-alkyl-6-chloropurines, where alkyl represents methyl, allyl, propargyl, ester, and keto groups . From this point of view, the tert -butyl group is specific.…”