Medicine
8 years ago

New method creates powerful antibiotics to combat drug-resistant infections.

The Journal of Antibiotics
Polyene antibiotics. IX. An improved method for the preparation of methyl esters of polyene antibiotics.
Ramesh C. Pandey, Kenneth L. Rinehart

Paper Summary

A new method for making methyl esters of polyene antibiotics was developed. Researchers successfully prepared methyl esters of various antibiotics like pimaricin, nystatin, and amphotericin B using this method. They also studied the properties and biological activities of some of these methyl esters.

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