Abstract
Formic acid was identified as the acidic component of antibiotic K-52B by gas-liquid chromatography, whereas amino sugar I hydrochloride was isolated from the acid hydrolysate as the basic sugar component. On the basis of infrared analyses of constituent oligosaccharides, formic acid was assumed to be linked to the hydroxyl group of galactose in oligosaccharide III. From the results of physicochemical properties and ninhydrin degradation, periodate oxidation and peracetylation studies of amino sugar I hydrochloride, C8H18N2O5. 2HClwas considered to be a new diaminohexose with a substituent group.
