A series of aliphatic side-chain analogues of pseudomycin was synthesized a
nd evaluated during the course of our sidechain SAR effort. We found that s
everal of the pseudomycin side-chain analogues (e.g., 10) exhibited good in
vitro activity against all three major fungi responsible for systemic fung
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