The design and synthesis of a series of natural product-like synthetic macrolides built upon a quinic acid-containing scaffold are described. Three of the macrolides ( 1, 3, and 6) have been shown to inhibit 4T1 breast cancer cell migration with low nanomolar to sub-micromolar IC50 values ( 77, 525, and 550 nM, respectively) in complementary assays including a quantitative cell migration assay and a semiquantitative wound healing assay.