Abstract: 15-fluoroketolides of the formula having improved activity and safety, compositions comprising them, and methods for their preparation and use in the treatment of bacterial infections.

Abstract: Compounds having a structure according to formula (I) where RA, RB, RC, RD, RE, and RF are as defined herein, are useful as prokinetic agents.

Abstract: Facile methods for preparing diketide and triketide thioesters are disclosed. The resulting thioesters may be used as intermediates in the synthesis of desired polyketides, and may contain functional groups which ultimately reside in side chains on the resulting polyketide and thus can be used further to manipulate the polyketide so as form derivatives. The polyketides produced may also be tailored by glycosylation, hydroxylation and the like. New polyketides and their derivatives and tailored forms are thereby produced.

Abstract: Facile methods for preparing diketide and triketide thioesters are disclosed. The resulting thioesters may be used as intermediates in the synthesis of desired polyketides, and may contain functional groups which ultimately reside in side chains on the resulting polyketide and thus can be used further to manipulate the polyketide so as form derivatives. The polyketides produced may also be tailored by glycosylation, hydroxylation and the like. New polyketides and their derivatives and tailored forms are thereby produced.

Abstract: Facile methods for preparing diketide and triketide thioesters are disclosed. The resulting thioesters may be used as intermediates in the synthesis of desired polyketides, and may contain functional groups which ultimately reside in side chains on the resulting polyketide and thus can be used further to manipulate the polyketide so as form derivatives. The polyketides produced may also be tailored by glycosylation, hydroxylation and the like. New polyketides and their derivatives and tailored forms are thereby produced.

Abstract: Facile methods for preparing diketide and triketide thioesters are disclosed. The resulting thioesters may be used as intermediates in the synthesis of desired polyketides, and may contain functional groups which ultimately reside in side chains on the resulting polyketide and thus can be used further to manipulate the polyketide so as form derivatives. The polyketides produced may also be tailored by glycosylation, hydroxylation and the like. New polyketides and their derivatives and tailored forms are thereby produced.

Abstract: The present invention provides novel sixteen-membered macrolide compounds that are useful as anti-infective agents or as intermediates thereto. The present invention also provides methods for the preparation of these compounds, and methods and formulations for their use. In one aspect of the present invention, sixteen-membered macrolide possessing a side chain Z are provided where Z is aliphatic, aryl, alkylaryl, halide, ═NOR3, ═NNHR3, or —W—R3 where W is O, S, NC(═O)R4, NC(═O)OR4, NC(═O)NHR4 or NR4 where R3 and R4 are each independently hydrogen, aliphatic, aryl or alkylaryl. In another aspect of the present invention, bicyclic compounds are provided where one of the cyclic-components is a sixteen-membered macrolide and the other is a cyclic moiety whose cyclic structure is formed by between 3 and 10 atoms. In another aspect of the present invention, sixteen-membered macrolide compounds that bind to the domain II region of the 23S RNA are provided.