Bicyclic carbohydrate-derived scaffolds for combinatorial libraries.

A bicyclic scaffold derived from the natural monosaccharide d-glucose, and possessing several diversity sites, was linked to various resins through the primary (C-6) hydroxyl and decorated on the solid phase: the hydroxyl group at C-4 was functionalized as ester, ether, and carbamate, the amino group in the second cycle (C-3' position) was functionalized as amide, sulfonamide, and ureido- and thioureido-derivatives. The compounds synthesized on the solid phase were tested for their antiproliferative activity on tumor cell lines.