Treatment of alkenyl iodide (I) with the organozinc reagent (II) in the presence of CuBr afforded the unsaturated alpha,alpha-difluorophosphonate (III), which was condensed with diazomethane to give the cyclopropane derivative (IV). Acid hydrolysis of the tetrahydropyranyl ether of (IV) provided alcohol (V), which was converted into tosylate (VI) with p-TsCl and Et3N. Coupling of (VI) with 6-chloropurine (VII) gave the 9-alkylated purine (VIII). Finally, hydrolysis of both phosphonate esters and the chloro atom of purine (VIII) was carried out upon treatment with bromotrimethylsilane, followed by aqueous hydrolysis to yield the title compound.