Landreau Cyrille A S, LePla Rachel C, Shipman Michael, Slawin Alexandra M Z, Hartley John A
Department of Chemistry, University of Warwick, Gibbet Hill Road, Coventry CV4 7AL, U.K., School of Chemistry, University of St. Andrews, Purdie Building, St. Andrews, Fife KY16 9ST, UK.
Org Lett. 2004 Sep 30;6(20):3505-7. doi: 10.1021/ol048653y.
[reaction: see text] Using a series of synthetic azinomycin analogues, it is shown that the efficiency of in vitro DNA interstrand cross-linking is markedly reduced when either the C-5' methyl group or both the C-5' methyl and C-3' methoxy groups are deleted from the naphthalene ring.