“…Such a limitation has prompted the development of an improved chemical synthesis of c‐di‐GMP from phosphoramidite intermediates (Grajkowski et al., ). This improved synthesis is based on the unprecedented 5′‐ O ‐formylation of a commercial guanosine ribonucleoside (Srivastava, Pandey, Srivastava, & Bajpai, ; Srivastava, Pandey, Srivastava, & Bajpai, ), which had its 2′‐ and 3′‐hydroxyl functions protected with a tert ‐butyldimethylsilyl and a 4,4′‐dimethoxytrityl group, respectively; the exocyclic amine of the guanine moiety had been protected with a traditional isobutyryl group.…”