Re. Shaw et al., SYNTHESIS OF NOVEL MONOCYCLIC SQUALESTATIN ANALOGS AS POTENTIAL INHIBITORS OF SQUALENE SYNTHASE, Bioorganic & medicinal chemistry letters, 4(18), 1994, pp. 2155-2160
The syntheses of two monocyclic 1,3-dioxane tricarboxylic acid analogu
es of the natural product srlualestatin 1 are described herein. Their
activity against both mammalian (rat liver) and fungal (Candida albica
ns) squalene synthase is also reported.