“…The first attempts to use carboranes as a pharmacophore have been initiated by Endo and coworkers, who introduced the 1-(4-hydroxyphenyl)carborane core as a steroidal framework [8,9]. Since their reports, various compounds have been synthesized based on the carborane pharmacophore strategy including folic acid analogs [10], antifolates [11], flufenamic acid and diflunisal analogs [12], aspirin and indomethacin analogs [13,14], nicotinamide phosphoribosyltranferase inhibitors [15], carbonic anhydrase inhibitors [16], purinergic P2X 7 receptor antagonists [17], combretastatin analogs [18], and manassantin analogs [19].…”