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SUBMITTER: Velvadapu V
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3105755 | biostudies-literature | 2011 Jan
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

ACS medicinal chemistry letters 20110101 1
There is an urgent need to discover new drugs to address the pressing problem of antibiotic-resistance. Macrolide antibiotics such as erythromycin (1) are safe, broad-spectrum antibiotics used in the clinic since 1954. Herein we report the synthesis and evaluation of 4,8,10-tridesmethyl telithromycin (3), a novel desmethyl analogue of the 3rd-generation drug telithromycin (2), which is a semisynthetic derivative of 1. Analogue 3 was found to possess antibiotic activity and was superior to telith ...[more]