solutions various buffer solutions methanol and ethanol hardly soluble in hexane and in chloroform molecular formula c 15 h 27 no 10 1 h nmr u03b4 ppm d 2 o tsp 1 21 d 3h 2 00 s 3h 3 47 s 3h 4 39 d 1h 4 43 d 1h 82 mg of a sodium salt of the intermediate b obtained in example 1 and 43 mg of 2 acetamide 2 deoxy d glucose were dissolved in 8 5 ml of 0 1m hepes buffer solution ph 6 5 containing 20 mm of manganese chloride and with addition of 4 units of galactosyltranferase commercially available from sigma inc the mixture was left to stand at 37 u00b0 c for 3 days for reaction the reaction solution was passed through an activated carbon column 2 u00d7 13 cm for adsorption then the column was subject to eluation with 50 ethanol the obtained eluate fraction was concentrated to obtain 70 mg of crude product the crude product was separated and purified using a column 3 u00d7 81 2 cm filled with sephadex g 15 from pharmacia inc with a mobile phase of water to obtain 20 mg of mixture of u03b1 and u03b2 2 acetamide 2 deoxy 4 o 6 deoxy u03b2 d galactopyranosyl d glucose sugar compound b which was a sugar compound represented by the aforementioned formula 1 in which r 1 is hydrogen and r 2 is also hydrogen the physical properties of the sugar compound b are as follows solubility soluble in water alkaline solutions acid solutions various buffer solutions methanol and.