Sankyo Company, Limited

Takuzo Nishimura

Norio Nakamura

Hideo Nakao

Koichi Hirai

Akiko Ando

Yuji Iwano

Tetsuo Hiraoka

Hachio Miyazawa

Masafumi Yoshimoto

Yukichi Kishida

Tokio Saito

7.alpha.-Methoxycephalosporin derivatives of general formula (I): ##STR1## wherein: R.sup.1 represents a hydroxy group; a C.sub.1 -C.sub.4 alkoxy group; a C.sub.2 -C.sub.5 aliphatic acyloxy group; a benzoyloxy group which is unsubstituted or has one or more C.sub.1 -C.sub.4 alkyl, C.sub.1 -C.sub.4 alkoxy, nitro or halogen substituents; a benzenesulphonyloxy group which is unsubstituted or has one or more C.sub.1 -C.sub.4 alkyl substituents; or a C.sub.1 -C.sub.3 alkanesulphonyloxy group which is unsubstituted or has one or more C.sub.1 -C.sub.3 alkoxy, cyano, nitro, halogen or C.sub.2 -C.sub.4 alkoxycarbonyl substituents;

7.alpha.-Methoxycephalosporin derivatives and their pharmaceutical

Novel penicillin and cephalosporin derivatives possessing interferon inducibility and represented by the formula ##STR1## wherein Y represents a hydrogen atom, a halogen atom a nitro group, an alkoxy group or an alkyl group; M represents a protective group for a hydroxyl or carboxyl group; Z represents a group ##STR2## or a group ##STR3## in which D is a hydrogen atom, an acyloxy group, a carbamoyloxy group or a substituted or unsubstituted heterocyclic thio group; A represents a cyano group, a carboalkoxy group or a nitro group; and B represents a hydrogen atom, a cyano group, a carboalkoxy group or a nitro group And process for preparing the same.

Penicillin and cephalosporin derivatives and process for preparing the

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