R. Yamada et al., SYNTHESIS AND ACTIVITY OF STAUROSPORINE ANALOGS WITH A LACTONE FUNCTIONALITY, Bioorganic & medicinal chemistry letters, 6(16), 1996, pp. 1893-1896
Staurosporine analogs, whose gamma-lactam functionality was converted
into gamma-lactone, were synthesized. The key step involves remarkably
efficient ring-opening and then intramolecular cyclization reactions.
In general, those compounds display potent anti-platelet aggregation
activity and show higher selectivity against platelet as compared with
smooth muscle contraction. Copyright (C) 1996 Elsevier Science Ltd