Gist-brocades N.v.

Jan Verwey

Hong Sheng Tan

Arthur F Marx

Peter M Smid

New azetidine derivatives of the formula: ##STR1## wherein R.sub.1 represents a penicillin- or cephalosporin-amido group, R.sub.2 represents one of the groups of the following formulae: ##STR2## wherein R.sub.4, R.sub.5 and R.sub.6 are the same or different and each represents a hydrogen atom or a lower alkyl or alkenyl group, n represents 2 or 3 and--in case formula IIB represents a phenyl group--this group may carry one to four further substituents selected from the group consisting of halogen atoms and lower alkyl, lower alkenyl and phenyl groups,

Process for the preparation of azetidines

R-sulfoxides of the formulae ##STR1## wherein ##STR2## represents an usual penicillin or cephalosporin amide group and X is selected from the group consisting of hydrogen, hydroxy, an alkanoyloxy and the residue of a nucleophilic agent and their salts and esters are prepared by oxidation of the corresponding penicillins and cephalosporins to convert the sulfur atom in the ring to a sulfoxide group and separating and isolating the penicillin- or cephalosporin R-sulfoxide so formed from the reaction mixture or by acylation of the free amino group of the intermediate 6-aminopenicillanic acid R-sulfoxide and 7-aminocephalosporanic acid R-sulfoxide and derivatives. A preferred straight oxidation method is the photosensitized oxygenation method.

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New azetidine derivatives of the formula: ##EQU1## wherein R.sub.1 represents a penicillin- or cephalosporin-amido group, R.sub.2 represents one of the groups of the following formulae: ##EQU2## wherein R.sub.4, R.sub.5 and R.sub.6 are the same or different and each represents a hydrogen atom or a lower alkyl or alkenyl group, n represents 2 or 3 and - in case formula IIB represents a phenyl group - this group may carry one to four further substituents selected from the group consisting of halogen atoms and lower alkyl, lower alkenyl and phenyl groups, R.sub.3 represents an amino group of the formula ##EQU3## wherein R.sub.7 represents a hydrogen atom or a lower alkyl group and R.sub.8 represents a lower alkyl group, or R.sub.3 represents a N,N'-disubstituted hydrazino group wherein the substituents are lower alkyl groups, e.g. the N,N'-diisopropylhydrazino group, or R.sub.3 represents the group -OR.sub.9, wherein R.sub.9 represents a hydrogen atom, a lower alkyl group, which group may be substituted by 1 to 3 halogen atoms or by 1 or 2 phenyl groups, wherein the phenyl groups may be substituted by a methoxy or a nitro group, or R.sub.9 represents a phenacyl group or a salt-forming cation, and corresponding azetidine derivatives of formula 1 wherein the double bond in the propenyl side chain has been shifted from the 2- to the 1-position, which are versatile intermediates in the process of preparing cephalosporanic and penicillanic derivatives.

Azetidine derivatives

A new azetidine derivative of the formula: ##EQU1## wherein R.sub.1 represents a penicillin- or cephalosporin-amido group, R.sub.2 represents one of the groups of the following formulae: ##EQU2## wherein R.sub.4, R.sub.5 and R.sub.6 are the same or different and each represents a hydrogen atom or a lower alkyl or alkenyl group, n represents 2 or 3 and - in case formula IIB represents a phenyl group - this group may carry one to four further substituents selected from the group consisting of halogen atoms and lower alkyl, lower alkenyl and phenyl groups, R.sub.3 represents an amino group of the formula ##EQU3## wherein R.sub.7 represents a hydrogen atom or a lower alkyl group and R.sub.8 represents a lower alkyl group, or R.sub.3 represents a N,N'-disubstituted hydrazino group wherein the substituents are lower alkyl groups, e.g. the N,N'-diisopropylhydrazino group, or R.sub.3 represents the group --OR.sub.9, wherein R.sub.9 represents a hydrogen atom, a lower alkyl group, which group may be substituted by 1 to 3 halogen atoms or by 1 or 2 phenyl groups, werein the phenyl groups may be substituted by a methoxy or a nitro group, or R.sub.9 represents a phenacyl group or a salt-forming cation, And corresponding azetidine derivatives of formula I wherein the double bond in the propenyl side chain has been shifted from the 2- to the 1-position, which are versatile intermediates in the process of preparing cephalosporanic and penicillanic derivative.

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