“…The search for compounds to treat type 2 diabetes by preventing saccharide hydrolysis has led to three clinically approved inhibitors of intestinal (as opposed to ER) α-glucosidases: miglitol, acarbose, and voglibose . These glycomimetics employ different amino sugar scaffolds: the iminosugar 1-deoxynojirimycin (DNJ) for miglitol, valienamine ((1 S ,2 S ,3 R ,6 S )-6-amino-4-(hydroxymethyl)cyclohex-4-ene-1,2,3-triol) for acarbose, and valiolamine ((1 S ,2 S ,3 R ,4 S ,5 S )-5-amino-1-(hydroxymethyl)cyclohexane-1,2,3,4-tetraol) for voglibose. , While iminosugars based on DNJ have been studied extensively as ER α-glucosidase inhibitors and potential antiviral therapeutics, − as noted above, valienamines and valiolamines, which contain an exocyclic amine group, have not been studied, with the exception of several valienamine derivatives that showed limited α-GluII inhibitory activity . Accordingly, we synthesized a series of N-substituted valiolamine derivatives, measured their ability to inhibit ER α-GluI and α-GluII, and tested them for activity against dengue virus and SARS-CoV-2 in vitro .…”