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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 23, 1978
Filed:
Feb. 25, 1977
Applicant:
Inventor:
Lowell D Hatfield, Bargersville, IN (US);
Assignee:
Eli Lilly and Company, Indianapolis, IN (US);
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
C07D / ; C07D / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
544 30 ; 424246 ; 544 21 ; 544 19 ;
Abstract
p-Nitrobenzyl esters of cephalosporins are reductively cleaved with zinc and .alpha.-hydroxycarboxylic acids, e.g., the p-nitrobenzyl ester of the cephalosporin antibiotic, cephalexin, is reacted in an inert solvent with zinc and mandelic acid to provide the antibiotic, cephalexin, as the free acid in yields greater than 85 percent.