[GRAPHICS] The synthesis of (2S,4S)- and (PR,4S)-aepPNA monomers of adenine, guanine, and cytosine (3-5) end their incorporation at appropriate positions into aegPNA sequence 7 leads to mixed aeg-aep backbone/mixed nucleobase PNAs 8-11, The thermal stabilities of the derived duplexes with DNA are found to be dependent on nucleobase and backbone stereochemistry.