Recently it was reported that certain cycloalkanepolycarboxylic acids and some of its derivatives display several types of functions, eg antitumor activity,'binding ability with several metal ions? selective interactions with some nucleic bases? inter aliu. Some cycloalkanepolymethylols bound with nucleic acids were also reported to have very potent antiviral activitity! Our interest in a variety of functionalized polysubstituted cycloalkanes ...
