A number of new compounds bearing two ortho-bromo-and ortho, ortho-dibromophenol moieties linked through a saturated/unsaturated, linear/(poly) cyclic spacer (compounds 1– 9) were prepared as simplified analogues of AMI-5 (eosin), a recently reported inhibitor of both protein arginine and histone lysine methyltransferases (PRMTs and HKMTs). Such compounds were tested against a panel of PRMTs (RmtA, PRMT1, and CARM1) and ...