“…The synthesis of analogs of these peptidonucleosidic compounds has been the matter of intensive synthetic work [ 19 , 20 , 21 , 22 ], especially regarding the goal of decreasing their complexity while maintaining potent inhibition of MraY enzymatic activity. This is particularly challenging, considering the hydrophilicity of these molecules, and interesting progress has been achieved towards this objective [ 23 , 24 , 25 , 26 , 27 ]. Based on the aminoribosyluridine skeleton known to be important for MraY inhibition, we developed the synthesis of several families of simplified analogs ( Figure 2 A), with the chemical diversity being introduced on this scaffold through a triazole [ 28 ] or a methylene triazole [ 29 ] linker.…”