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SUBMITTER: Chupakhin E
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6429155 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Feb
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Molecules (Basel, Switzerland) 20190228 5
Cyclic hydroxamic acids can be viewed as effective binders of soluble iron and can therefore be useful moieties for employing in compounds to treat iron overload disease. Alternatively, they are analogs of bacterial siderophores (iron-scavenging metabolites) and can find utility in designing antibiotic constructs for targeted delivery. An earlier described three-component variant of the Castagnoli-Cushman reaction of homophthalic acid (via in situ cyclodehydration to the respective anhydride) wa ...[more]