A pharmaceutical composition, comprising a compound having chemical
structural formula I:where R1 is selected from the group consisting of: an
alkyl group, a heteroalkyl group, an
aryl group, a heteroaryl group, an alkenyl group, a heteroalkenyl group, an alkynyl group, a heteroalkynyl group, a cycloalkyl group, a hetercycloalkyl group, an alkylcycloalkyl group, a heteroalkyl cycloalkyl group, an aralkyl group, a heteroaralkyl group, an
alkoxy group, a polar group, an ester and a charged group; a pharmaceutically acceptable hydrolysable, or enzymatically cleavable,
prodrug form thereof; and / or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof;where R4′ is H or an
alkoxy group; where both R5 and R3′ are OH, and where one or both OH groups is modified as a pharmaceutically acceptable hydrolysable, or enzymatically cleavable,
prodrug form thereof, wherein the
prodrug form thereof comprises an ester selected from: an
amino acid ester, a
phosphate ester, and a
sulfonate ester.