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Synthesis and antibacterial activity of the antibiotic eremomycin esters
A. Yu. Pavlov, E. N. Olsufyeva, T. F. Berdnikova, B. V. Rozynov, L. G. Aleksandrova, I. V. Malkova, M. N. Preobrazhenskaya
Institute of New Antibiotics, Academy of Medical Sciences of the USSR, Moscow; *M.M. Shemyakin Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry, Academy of Sciences of the USSR, Moscow
Abstract: Methyl, benzyl and diphenylmethyl esters of the glycopeptide antibiotic eremomycin were obtained by its treatment with corresponding diazoalkanes. The esters have high antibacterial activity but are less active than the parent antibiotic.
Russian Journal of Bioorganic Chemistry 1991, 17 (6):849-854