Nakajima N, Enomoto T, Matsuura N, Ubukata M
Biotechnology Research Center, Toyama Prefectural University, Japan.
Bioorg Med Chem Lett. 1998 Dec 1;8(23):3331-4. doi: 10.1016/s0960-894x(98)00604-0.
Three pyrimidinylpropanamide antibiotics sparsomycin (1), sparoxomycins A1, A2 (2, 3), and also six analogues (4-9) have been synthesized by employing asymmetric sulfide oxidation conditions as a key step. Sparsomycin (1) and its alkyl analogues (5-7) showed higher morphological reversion activities on srctsNRK cells than 2 and 3.