| abstract |
4-Hydroxytetrahydropyran-2-ones and the corresponding dihydroxycarboxylic acid derivatives, salts and esters, process for their preparation, their use as pharmaceu-ticals, and pharmaceutical preparations and precursors compounds of the formula I and the corresponding open-chain dihydroxycarboxylic acids of the formula II in which X, Y, R1, R2, R3, R4 and R5 have the meanings indicated, and also their pharmacologically tolerable salts with bases and their pharmacologically tolerable esters, processes for the preparation of these compounds, their use as pharmaceuticals and pharmaceutical prepara-tions are described. In addition, compounds of the formula III in which R1, R2, R3, R4, R5, X and Y have the meanings indicated are described. |