Abstract
The preparation of monomers for the synthesis of phosphonate analogues of peptide nucleic acids containing the four natural nucleobases: thymine, cytosine, adenine and guanine, has been ccomplished. The monomers obtained were used for the automated online solid phase synthesis of pure phosphono-PNA oligomers as well as chimeras consisting of phosphono-PNA and PNA resudies. The hybridization properties of these oligonucleotide mimics to complementary DNA and RNA fragments were studied.