Taccalonolide AJ is a microtubule stabilizer; it has excellent and highly persistent antitumor efficacy when administered directly to the tumor, suggesting that the lack of antitumor efficacy seen with systemic administration of AJ is likely due to its short half-life in vivo.

4,4-dimethyl-2,3,4,5-tetrahydro-1H-1,5-benzodiazepin-2-one is a compound used as a molecular building block.

Isomaltose is a disaccharide similar to maltose, but with a α-(1-6)-linkage instead of the α-(1-4)-linkage. It is a reducing sugar.