Politechnika Gdanska

Instytut Przemyslu Farmaceutycznego

Jerzy J Golik

Edward Borowski

Leonard S Falkowski

Barbara J Stefanska

Elzbieta Troka

Jan Zielinski

Pawel Kolodziejczyk

Andrzej B Jarzebski

Jan Pawlak

Ewa Jakobs

Elzbieta Bylec

Halina Dahlig

Danuta Roslik-Kaminska

Zuzanna Kowszyk-Gindifer

Zofia Plociennik

Wladyslawa Wagner

Emilia Cybulska

A process for production of esters of antibiotics from the group of polyene macrolides and of N-substituted derivatives thereof, having the general Formula 1, wherein R denotes the radical of antibiotic or of its R-COOR, I N-substituted derivative, and R.sub.1 denotes an alkyl with the chain length of C.sub.1 through C.sub.5, or an aryl, consisting therein that an antibiotic from the group of polyene macrolides or its N-substituted derivative is dissolved or suspended in alcohol and/or neutral organic solvent, or in a mixture of organic solvents, in presence of dicyclohexylcarbodiimide and/or hydrocybenzotriazole, the whole is allowed to stand at room temperature, or at temperature elevated to 40.degree. C., and then the obtained product is isolated from the reaction medium after known methods.

Method of preparation of esters of antibiotics selected from the group

Inorganic salts of trimethylammonium derivatives of polyene macrolides, particularly the inorganic salts of methyl esters of these derivatives having the general formula: ##STR1## wherein R is the residue of a polyene macrolide and X is an anion of a salt selected from the group consisting of methylsulphate, sulphate, chloride, phosphate and acetate. The preparation of salts of formula (I) or formula (II) is also disclosed.

Water-soluble salts of trimethylammonium derivatives of polyene

The new compounds, N-methylglucamine salts of N-glycosyl derivatives of polyene macrolides particularly N-methylglucamine salts of N-glycosyl derivatives of amphotericin B, polifungin and nystatin are described herein. These compounds exhibit high pharamacological activity in some topical and sistemic fungal infections. The product is prepared by reaction of an amino group containing polyene macrolide with an aldose or ketose mono- or oligosaccharide, in an organic solvent medium or in the mixture of solvents characterized in that the formed N-glycosyl derivatives is precipitated from the reaction medium by water or with an aqueous solution of inorganic salt, preferably ammonium sulphate, and after crystallization from a higher alkanol of C.sub.3-6 atoms, preferably n-butanol transformed into a salt, preferably an N-methylglucamine salt and then crystallized from higher alkanol, preferably n-butanol.

Salts of N-glycosyl derivatives of polyene macrolides, especially

Growing community of inventors

Sopot, Poland

Jerzy J Golik