“…After acidic cleavage from the polymer, the trithymidine product was purified by chromatography and obtained in 11% yield. Phosphorylation and cleavage of thymidine bound to trityl-functionalized polystyrene was also performed. , Another group found conditions for homogeneous pyridine reactions using a similar trityl-containing polystyrene of molecular weight 270 000 (with 0.4 mmol/g measured loading capacity) that provided higher yields of oligonucleotides. , Although reaction rates were comparable to classical solution methods, product recovery was again problematic for longer oligonucleotides . In an attempt to synthesize a pentadeoxyribonucleotide, the polystyrene-supported oligonucleotides had significant solubility in water that prevented significant precipitation of polymer from pyridine.…”