N-glycosylated carboxylic acid derivatives as agents for combating rheumatic diseases

摘要

A method of combating rheumatic diseases which comprises administering to a patient afflicted therewith an amount effective to combat such disease of a compound of the formula <IMAGE> in which Z is a glycosyl radical bonded via the anomeric carbon atom, R1 is hydrogen or an optionally substituted hydrocarbon radical with up to 30 C atoms, which hydrocarbon radical is optionally interrupted by O, N or S, and R2 is hydrogen or an alkyl or aralkyl radical with up to 30 C atoms, which is optionally interrupted by O, N or S or substituted by an oxygen-containing group or halogen, with the proviso that COR1 is not an acyl group with 1-5 C atoms if R2 is alkyl with 10-20 C atoms.