Sugar derivatives or salts thereof, antibacterial agents or antibacterial activity enhancers using them, reagents for synthesizing them, and methods for producing these using reagents
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a compound that facilitates synthesis and enables inexpensive and large-scale synthesis, to provide an antibacterial agent and a substance enhancing activities of other antibacterial agents each using the compound, to provide a reagent for synthesizing the compound and to provide a method for producing the compound.SOLUTION: A sugar derivative or a salt thereof having antibacterial action or potentiation of antibacterial activity is represented by the formula as given below. (R1 is a structure including an amino group derived from an amino acid or of a 2C or more aminoalkyl group; R2 and R3 are H or an acyl group; R1 preferably includes an amino acid having at least one amino group and is preferably lysine; R2 and R3 are an acetyl group, an isobutyryl group or a butyryl group; and n is an integer of 2 or more)SELECTED DRAWING: NoneCOPYRIGHT: (C)2016,JPO&INPIT