“…1 The cyclic β-amino acids are not only pharmacologically active compounds themselves but are also elements in bioactive substances with more complex structures. Thus, amypurimycin (5) and pitucamycin (6), with five-and six-membered carbocyclic β-amino acid moieties, respectively, in their structure are antibiotics. 2g−k A large family of bioactive compounds is the nucleoside-based antibiotics, whose structures contain either five-or six-membered O-heterocyclic β-amino acid residues.…”