Jf. Peyrat et al., STUDY OF THE BINDING-AFFINITY OF OLIGO-TETRAHYDROFURANIC GAMMA-LACTONES WITH CATIONS, Tetrahedron letters, 36(42), 1995, pp. 7653-7656
Tetrahydrofuranic gamma-lactone derivatives have shown interesting cyt
otoxic activities which can be explained by an ionophoric ability. Ind
eed divalent cations show a higher affinity than monovalent ions with
these lactones, with a dependancy on the stereochemical relationships
of the stereogenic centres of the molecules.