Patent ID: 8013010

Claim:
A thioxylose compound selected from the group consisting of: a) compounds of formula I: wherein: the pentapyranosyl group represents a 5-thio-β-D-xylopyranosyl group, R represents a hydrogen atom or a C 2 -C 6 acyl group, R′ and R″ each independently represent a hydrogen atom, a halogen atom or a C 1 -C 4 alkyl group, and A represents a 5- or 6-membered aromatic ring of formula: wherein: X represents a nitrogen, oxygen or sulfur atom, Y represents a carbon atom or a single bond, Z 1 , Z 2 and Z 3 each independently represent a carbon or nitrogen atom, and R 1 , R 2 and R 3 each independently represent a hydrogen atom, a halogen atom, a cyano group, a C 1 -C 4 alkyl group, a hydroxyl group, a C 1 -C 4 alkoxy group, a trifluoromethyl group or a dialkylamino group; or R 1 and R 2 together with the atoms of the heterocycle to which they are attached form an aromatic ring comprising 6 carbon atoms, whereby A represents a fused bicyclic group, b) addition salts thereof.