Japan As Represented by President of National Center of Neurology and Psychiatry

Kenji Murata

Hirokazu Annoura

Takashi Yamamura

Novel glycolipid derivatives, where the substituent of the sphingosine base part is a short carbon chain alkyl group, substituted or unsubstituted cycloalkyl group, substituted or unsubstituted aryl group or substituted or unsubstituted aralkyl group and efficient synthetic methods for practical mass production of the same and intermediates useful for the synthesis of these compounds. Glycolipids having the formula (I): where Rindicates a substituted or unsubstituted Cto Clinear alkyl group, substituted or unsubstituted cycloalkyl group, substituted or unsubstituted aryl group, or substituted or unsubstituted aralkyl group and Rindicates a substituted or unsubstituted Cto Calkyl group, substituted or unsubstituted aryl group or substituted or unsubstituted aralkyl group are chemically synthesized.

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Ibaraki, Japan

Kenji Murata