Abstract: The present invention relates to a pharmaceutical composition comprising an insulin compound in a concentration that is sufficient to maintain a therapeutically effective level of the insulin compound in blood plasma for at least 3 days characterized by having a pharmacokinetic profile in vivo with substantially no burst of the insulin compound. The present invention further relates to the use of an insulin compound for preparing said pharmaceutical composition as well as a kit of parts comprising said pharmaceutical composition.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a prodrug or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof comprising a drug linker conjugate D-L, wherein -D is an amine containing biologically active moiety; and -L is a non-biologically active linker moiety -L1 represented by formula (I), wherein the dashed line indicates the attachment to the amine of the biologically active moiety and wherein R1, R1a, R2, R2a, R3, R3a, X, X1, X2, X3 have the meaning as indicated in the description and the claims and wherein L1 is substituted with one to four groups L2-Z and optionally further substituted, provided that the hydrogen marked with the asterisk in formula (I) is not replaced by a substituent; wherein L2 is a single chemical bond or a spacer; and Z is a carrier group. The invention also relates to A-L, wherein A is a leaving group, pharmaceutical composition comprising said prodrugs and their use as medicaments.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a process for the organo-catalysed kinetic racemate resolution of compounds of the general formula (II). It is thus possible through the action of catalytic amounts of enantiomerically enriched compounds of the general formula (Ia) or (Ib) to obtain on the one hand enantiomerically enriched optionally N-acylated ?-amino acid esters and on the other hand enantiomerically enriched 4,5-dihydrooxazin-6-ones (oxazinones). The corresponding enantiomerically enriched ?-amino acids can be formed from both easily separable classes of compounds by simple hydrolysis.