Erythromycin thiocyanate

Erythromycin thiocyanate is currently commonly used macrolide antibiotic erythromycin thiocyanate, this product is veterinary medicine, used to treat gram-positive bacteria and pathogens infection, has been widely used as "animal growth promoters" in foreign countries, it and tylomycin, tetracycline hydrochloride and oxytetracycline and listed as China's four export veterinary antibiotic products. In addition, it is also an important intermediate for the synthesis of major macrocyclic Chemicalbook lactone antibiotics such as erythromycin, roxithromycin, azithromycin and clarithromycin. China began to produce erythromycin thiocyanate from the 1980s to the 1990s, but the output was very low and less than 100 tons, by 2007, erythromycin thiocyanate became the largest export variety of macrolide antibiotics in China, with a production capacity of more than 10,000 tons.