The discovery, made in Oxford, that crude penicillin could cure systemic and life-threatening bacterial infections was followed by attempts to purify penicillin, to determine its structure and then to produce it by total chemical synthesis. The plactam structure of the molecule, first proposed in Oc
Studies on β-lactam antibiotics. I. A novel conversion of penicillins into cephalosporins
✍ Scribed by Takashi Kamiya; Tsutomu Teraji; Yoshihisa Saito; Masashi Hashimoto; Osamu Nakaguchi; Teruo Oku
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 1973
- Tongue
- French
- Weight
- 217 KB
- Volume
- 14
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0040-4039
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✦ Synopsis
The sulfenic acid intermediate (A) formed by a thermal sigmatropic rearrangement of penicillin sulfoxides (I) has been trapped either intramolecularly or intermolecularly by several methods. 1) Our efforts have been directed to the preparation of a key intermediate useful for syntheses of modified B-lactam antibiotics. We found that dithioazetldinones (II), 2) easily obtained from reactions of penicillin sulfoxides (I) with heteroaromatic thiols, are the key intermediates for preparing 2-halomethyl-penams (III) and cephams (IV) derivatives. This paper reports a novel conversion of penicillins into cephalosporins through these important key intermediates.
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