To expand the structure–activity relationships of fosmidomycin and FR900098, two potent antimalarials interfering with the MEP-pathway, we decided to replace a methylene group in β-position of the phosphonate moiety of these leads by an oxygen atom. β-oxa-FR900098 ...
[Casadei, Maria Antonietta; Rienzo, Barbara Di; Inesi, Achille; Moracci, Franco Micheletti Journal of the Chemical Society, Perkin Transactions 1: Organic and Bio-Organic Chemistry (1972-1999), 1992 , # 3 p. 375 - 378]