“…[36] By coordinating to zinc, the oxy-anion of phosphinic acids mimics the unstable tetrahedral transition state of the peptide bond cleavage site, a feature which is crucial to their function as inhibitors. [27,36] The phosphinic moiety has been utilized for the construction of many inhibitors of a variety of enzymes such as MMP-3, [28,35] collagenases, [25,37,38] other zinc metalloproteases, [22, 26, 27, 39±41] HIV-protease, [42,43] other aspartic proteases, [32,44,45] ligases, [23,24,46,47] and yet other enzymes.…”