The synthesis of the imidazo[1,2‐a]pyrimidine 2′‐deoxyribonucleosides 2a and 3a related to 2′‐deoxyguanosine or 2′‐deoxyinosine is described. Glycosylation of the nucleobase anion of 5 with 2′‐deoxy‐3,5‐bis‐O‐(4‐methylbenzoyl)‐α‐D‐erythro‐pentofuranosyl chloride (6) yielded stereoselectively the N‐1 β‐D‐deoxyribofuranoside 7. Under the same conditions the 2′,3′‐dideoxyrihalogenoses 11 and 14 were employed to afford anomeric mixtures of glycosylation products (12, 13 and 15, 16). The glycosylation products obtained from the 2′‐deoxyribo‐ and 2′,3′‐dideoxyribo halides were then converted into the final nucleosides (2a, b and 3a, b). The inhibitory activity of the imidazo[1,2‐a]pyrimidine 2′,3′‐dideoxynucleoside 5′‐triphosphates 28a and 28b against HIV reverse transcriptase was tested.