METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING 2-AMINO-2-DEOXY-D-MANNITOL

摘要

2-Amino-2-deoxy-D-mannitol is not only useful as a cosmetic or as a starting material for preparing X ray contrast media, but also a useful substance having a specific activity of enhancing the yield of moranoline in the production of moranolin; it has been found that 2-amino-2-deoxy-D-mannitol can be manufactured by culturing a microorganism belonging to the genus Streptomyces and capable of producing 2-amino-2-deoxy-D-mannitol in a medium and isolating it from the obtained culture broth.