Substituted penicillins and cephalospori
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Raymond A. Firestone; Natalie Schelechow; David B.R. Johnston; B.G. Christensen
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Article
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1972
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Elsevier Science
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French
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The theory that penicillins and cephalosporins are D-alanyl-D-alanine surrogates led Strominger and Tipper (2) to predict that placing a methyl group in the same position as is found in the D-alanyl residue, i.e. a to the lactam carbonyl, would increase antibacterial effectiveness.