Daiichi Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd.

Daiichi Seiyaku Co., Ltd.

Kunio Higashi

Makoto Sato

Makoto Takemura

Tsunehiko Soga

Hiroo Matsumoto

Toshiyuki Nishi

New derivatives of penem and pharmacutically acceptable salt thereof are herein disclosed; these compounds being useful as an antibacterial agent which has an extremely wide antibacterial spectrum, exhibits a high sensitivity to bacteria resistant to conventional penicillins and cephalosporin antibiotics and is excellent in its physico-chemical stability, solubility to water and biological stability, in particular, stability to decomposition by enzyme such as dehydropeptidase I in kidney, .beta.-lactamase; these derivatives of penem being able to be prepared by reacting 2-substituted sulfinyl derivative of penem with a thiol compound and then optionally removing protective group(s) and further alkylating the reaction product or vice versa.

Derivatives of penem

New derivatives of penem and pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof are herein disclosed; these compounds being useful as an antibacterial agent which has an extremely wide antibacterial spectrum, exhibits a high sensitivity to bacteria resistant to conventional penicillins and cephalosporing antibiotics and is excellent in its physico-chemical stability, solubility to water and biological stability, in particular, stability to decomposition by enzyme such as dehydropeptidase I in kidney, .beta.-lactamase; these derivatives of penem being able to be prepared by reacting 2-substituted sulfinyl derivative of penem with a thiol compound and then optionally removing protective group(s) and further alkylating the reaction product or vice versa.

Mercapto-bicycloheterocyclics useful as intermediates for penem

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Kunio Higashi