In an effort to improve the aqueous solubility and the antitumor activity of natural product asperphenamate, we have designed and synthesized three series of asperphenamate derivatives, including series I (simplifying molecular skeleton series), series II (introducing a hydroxyl group to A-phenyl ring series) and series III (disrupting molecular planarity series). All derivatives have displayed a significantly increased solubility compared with ...
[Battersby, Alan R.; Jones, Raymond C. F.; Kazlauskas, Rymantas; Thornber, Craig W.; Ruchirawat, Somsak; Staunton, James Journal of the Chemical Society, Perkin Transactions 1: Organic and Bio-Organic Chemistry (1972-1999), 1981 , p. 2016 - 2029]