Patent ID: 6479650
Filing Date: 2002-11-12
Classification: C07H,Y10S,Y10T

Abstract:
A nucleoside analog in which a fluorescent cyclic compound is joined to a carbon of a sugar moiety in either an &agr; or &bgr; configuration wherein said sugar moiety is pentose or hexose, and wherein the fluorescent cyclic compound is joined to the C1 position of the sugar moiety and wherein said fluorescent cyclic compound is p-terphenyl, perylene, perylene amide, perylene imide, azobenzene, phenazine, phenanthroline, acridine, thioxanthrene, chrysene, rubrene, coronene, cyanine, or an oligomer of varying length selected from the group consisting of oligo(phenylene acetylene), oligothiophene, and oligobenzothiophene.