Nature Communications (Jan 2019)

A diversity-oriented rhodamine library for wide-spectrum bactericidal agents with low inducible resistance against resistant pathogens

  • Xiao Luo,
  • Liujia Qian,
  • Yansheng Xiao,
  • Yao Tang,
  • Yang Zhao,
  • Xia Wang,
  • Luyan Gu,
  • Zuhai Lei,
  • Jianming Bao,
  • Jiahui Wu,
  • Tingting He,
  • Fupin Hu,
  • Jing Zheng,
  • Honglin Li,
  • Weiping Zhu,
  • Lei Shao,
  • Xiaojing Dong,
  • Daijie Chen,
  • Xuhong Qian,
  • Youjun Yang

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-08241-3
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 1
pp. 1 – 12

Abstract

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Preparation of xanthene-containing compounds has been limited due to structural bias existing methods pose. Here, the authors developed a mild, diversity-oriented method for rhodamines synthesis, leading to the finding of compounds with antibacterial potency against a variety of bacterial species.