Multifunctional adamantane derivatives as new scaffolds for the multipresentation of bioactive peptides

The remarkable structural and chemical properties of adamantane afford attractive opportunities to design various adamantane-based scaffolds for biomedical applications. A wide range of mono-functionalized adamantane compounds have already been investigated and reviewed, mostly as anti-viral agents. The four bridgehead positions of adamantane provide many possibilities to design poly-functional derivatives, and the recent conception of adamantane building blocks with multiple substituents has shown promising applications in several domains. In this review, we provide a detailed description of the different ways to synthesize multifunctional derivatives starting from adamantane molecule as the main core. We will then describe the interesting biological activity of the diverse multivalent scaffolds, focusing in particular on peptide-based systems. The results reported here will certainly encourage the development of novel adamantane-based structures for biological purposes.