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Summary:The invention relates to compounds of the formula I in which R is H, alkyl, acyl, aryl or a phosphate residue; R is H, OH, alkoxy, NH2 or halogen; B is a base customary in nucleotide chemistry; a is O or CH2; n is an integer from 1 to 100; W is O, S or Se; V is O, S or NH; Y is O, S, NH or CH2; Y' is O, S, NH or alkylene; X is OH or SH; U is OH, SH, SeH, alkyl, aryl or amine, and Z is OH, SH, SeH, an optionally substituted radical from the series comprising alkyl, aryl, heteroaryl, alkoxy or amino or a group which favours intracellular uptake or as labelling of a DNA probe or which on hybridisation interacts with the target nucleic acid, where if Z is OH, SH, CH3 or OC2H5, at least one of the groups X, Y, Y', V, W is not equal to OH or O, or R is not equal to H; process for their preparation and their use as inhibitors of gene expression, as probes for detecting nucleic acids and as aids in molecular biology.
Bibliography:Application Number: FI19930000220