Glaxo Laboratories Limited

William George Underwood

Brian Edgar Looker

Derek H Barton

Alan Gibson Long

Edward McKenzie Wilson

Peter George Sammes

Graham Hewitt

Novel semisynthetic 4-thio-azetidin-2-one derivatives of use in the production of cephalosporins, penicillins and related .beta.-lactam antibiotic compounds are provided by cleavage reactions involving the corresponding 4-dithio-azetidin-2-one derivative or a suitable thiazoline derivative, which starting materials may be obtained from penicillins without changing the configuration of the .beta.-lactam structure desired in the final product.

Alkylative cleavage of azetidinone disulfides

Novel semisynthetic .beta.-lactam intermediates of use in the production of cephalosporins, penicillins and related .beta.-lactam antibiotic compounds are provided. The novel compounds are prepared from .beta.-lactams obtained by cleavage of the 1,2-sulphur-carbon bond of a penicillin 1-oxide (with subsequent internal or external trapping of the sulphur atom to leave a residual substituent as the .beta.-lactam nitrogen) by removal of the said residual substituent by an oxidative cleavage reaction.

Certain thiazolo azetidinone compounds

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William George Underwood