A comparison of the plant growth retardant activity of the chlamydocin analogues, compound 1, six derivatives from 1 and 2, and two synthetic analogues revealed that there are two types of retardant in chlamydocin analogues. One, for example in compound 1, requires an oxygen atom at C-8 of the 2-aminodecanoic acid moiety to show retardant activity. The other, for example in compound 8, requires no oxygen atom at C-8 but requires a specific alkyl ...
[Tavares, Francis X.; Deaton, David N.; Miller, Aaron B.; Miller, Larry R.; Wright, Lois L. Bioorganic and Medicinal Chemistry Letters, 2005 , vol. 15, # 17 p. 3891 - 3895]
