Takeda Chemical Industries, Inc.

Lederle (japan), Ltd.

Kenzo Naito

Yukio Ishibashi

Kazuo Tsukamura

Haruo Shinbo

Masayasu Kato

Michiyuki Sendai

Sakae Aoyagi

Shoichiro Fujii

Haruo Sinbo

Toshihiko Fujitani

Disclosed are an advantageous method of industrial production of tert-butyl 3-oxobutylate, which is a useful intermediate for synthesis, characterized by reacting tert-butyl alcohol with diketene in the presence of 4-(tertiary amino) pyridine, and an industrially advantageous method of producing cephalosporin compounds or pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof, using tert-butyl 3-oxobutylate as an intermediate.

Method for production of T-butyl 3-oxobutyrates and their use

A method for producing 3-(3-oxobutyryloxymethyl)-3-cepham-4-carboxylic acids which are antibiotics or intermediates for the synthesis of antibiotics, at a low temperature in a very short period of time and in good yield, characterized by reacting a 3-hydroxylmethyl-3-cephem-4-carboxylic acid with diketene in the presence of a 4-(tertiary-amino)pyridine and if necessary, when a 7-acylamino-3-(3-oxobutyryloxymethyl)-3-cephem-4-carboxylic acid is obtained, subjecting it to deacylation at the 7-position thereof.

Method for producing cephem compounds

Method for production of t-butyl 3-oxobutyrates and their use

A method for producing a compound of the formula; ##STR1## wherein R stands for a hydrogen atom, an acyl group or a protective group other than acyl groups, Q stands for a hydrogen atom or an ester residue, Y stands for the residue of a nucleophilic compound and the dotted line shows the double bond at 2- or 3- position of the cephem ring or a salt thereof, characterized by allowing a compound of the formula; ##STR2## [R, Q and the dotted line are of the same meaning as above] or a salt thereof to react with a nucleophilic compound or a salt thereof and a compound of the formula; ##STR3## wherein R.sup.1, R.sup.2, R.sup.3 independently stand for a hydrocarbon group having not more than 8 carbon atoms, or R.sup.1 and R.sup.2, R.sup.1 and R.sup.3 or R.sup.2 and R.sup.3 may be combined to form polymethylene group, according to which the end product [I] of high quality can be provided in a high yield by one reaction step by using the compound [III] of relatively low cost, thus the method of this invention is advantageous for mass-producing the compound [I] on an industrial scale from the compound [II] and a nucleophilic compound.

Method for production of cephalosporin compounds

An advantageous method of producing in large amounts on a commercial scale 2-substituted oxyimino-3-oxobutyric acids, which are useful as intermediates in the synthesis of e.g. aminothiazole cephalosporins, is characterized by reacting a tert-butyl 2-substituted oxyimino-3-oxobutyrate with a hydrogen halide in an anhydrous organic solvent.

Method for production of 2-oxyimino-3-oxobutyric acids

A method of producing 3-alkanoyloxymethyl-3-cephem-4-carboxylic acids, which are useful as antibiotics or as intermediates in the synthesis of antibiotics, by reacting a 3-hydroxymethyl-3-cephem-4-carboxylic acid with a saturated fatty acid anhydride in an aqueous medium in the presence of an acid-acceptor base and a 4-(tertiary amino)pyridine.

Method of producing cephem compounds

A method of producing a 4-halo-2-(substituted or unsubstituted)hydroxyimino-3-oxobutyric acid ester or amide, which is a synthetic intermediate of value for the production of cephalosporins containing an aminothiazole group, characterized by reacting a 2-(substituted or unsubstituted)-hydroxyimino-3-oxobutyric acid or an ester or amide thereof with a silylating agent and reacting the resulting novel 2-(substituted)hydroxyimino-3-silyloxy-3-butenoic acid ester or amide with a halogenating agent.

4-halogeno-2-oxyimino-3-oxobutyric acids and derivatives

A novel method of producing a cephalosporin compound of the formula ##STR1## wherein R.sup.1 is a hydrogen atom or an acyl group; R is a hydrogen atom or an ester residue; the dotted line means a double bond in 2- or 3-position of the cephem ring; and R.sup.4 is a nucleophilic compound residue, or a salt thereof, directedly in one step from a compound of the formula ##STR2## wherein R.sup.1, R and the dotted line have the meanings defined above, or a salt thereof, by reacting in the presence of an organic solvent the compound [II] or a salt thereof, a nucleophilic compound or a salt thereof, and (1) a trivalent or pentavalent cyclic phosphorus compound having a partial structure of the formula ##STR3## wherein W is an oxygen atom, a sulfur atom or NR.sup.2 ; W.sup.1 is an oxygen atom, a sulfur atom or NR.sup.3 ; and R.sup.2 and R.sup.3 may be the same or different and each means a hydrogen atom or a hydrocarbon group, or a salt thereof, or (2) a reaction product of a compound having a partial structure of the formula ##STR4## wherein W and W.sup.1 have the same meaning as defined above, or a salt thereof, with a phosphorus oxyhalide, trihalide or pentahalide.

Novel crystals of sodium 7.beta.-[2-(2-aminothiazol-4-yl)-(Z)-2-methoxyiminoacetamido]-3-[(1,2,3-th iadiazol-5-yl)thiomethyl] ceph-3-em-4-carboxylate showing characteristic peaks at interplanar spacings (d) of 9.3, 8.9, 5.3, 5.1, 4.4, 4.3 and 3.8 .ANG. in the powder X-ray diffraction pattern which are very stable and do not easily cause discoloration and decomposition.

Crystals of sodium cephemcarboxylate

A method is provided for producing a 1,3,2-dioxaphosphole of the formula ##STR1## wherein ##STR2## respresents a benzene ring which may be substituted and R represents an aryl, alkoxy or aralkyloxy group which may be substituted, which comprises reacting a catechol compound of the formula ##STR3## wherein ##STR4## is an defined above, with a compound of the formula ##STR5## wherein X is a halogen atom and R is as defined above, at a temperature not higher than about 30.degree. C. in the presence of a base.

Method for production of 1,3,2-dioxaphospholes

An improvement, in per se known method for producing 7-aminocephem compound being important intermediate for producing antimicrobial substances, represented by the formula: ##STR1## wherein R.sup.1 is a hydrogen atom or a methoxy group and R.sup.2 is a residue of a thiol compound, or a salt or ester thereof, by reacting a compound of the formula: ##STR2## wherein R.sup.1 is as defined above and R is a carboxylic acid acyl group, or a salt or ester thereof, with a thiol compound or a salt thereof, is characterized in that the reaction is conducted in an organic solvent in the presence of a dihalophosphoric acid to give the compound [II] in high yield and high purity.

Method for producing 7-aminocephem compounds

A solid cephalosporin derivative having the formula: ##STR1## wherein X is chlorine or bromine, n is a number from zero to 6, is found to have high stability in storage and may be used as an active component of an antimicrobial composition.

Solid cephalosporin salt

Penicillin-1-oxides are rearranged into the corresponding 3-desacetosycephalosporin derivatives in an inert organic solvent in the concomitant presence of an acid catalyst and an organic sulfide in a good yield and with a high purity.

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Kenzo Naito