Abstract: Derivatives of 2-spirocyclopropyl 4-acylcephem sulfones of the formula (I) ##STR1## are provided which are useful as potent elastase inhibitors and hence are useful in the prevention, control and treatment of inflammatory conditions, especially arthritis and emphysema.

Abstract: A cephalosporin derivative of the formula I: ##STR1## in which X is S, O, CH.sub.2 or SO, ##STR2## represents one of C-7 acyl groups known in the cephalosporin art, R3 is hydrogen or methoxy, R4 is hydrogen, optionally substituted alkyl or allyl, and R5 is an aromatic heterocyclic ring system which is linked via carbon, and which contains a quaternized nitrogen atom.

Abstract: .beta.-Lactam compounds of the formula (Ia) including pharmaceutically acceptable salts and in vivo hydrolysable esters, processes for their preparation and their use as antibiotics: ##STR1## wherein R.sup.1 is hydrogen, methoxy or formamido;R.sup.2 is an acyl group, in particular that of an antibacterially active cephalosporin;CO.sub.2 R.sup.6 is a carboxy group or a carboxylate anion;R.sup.3 is a Y-lactone ring optionally containing an endocyclic double bond, which ring is optionally substituted at any carbon atom by alkyl, dialkylamino, alkoxy, hydroxy, halogen or aryl, which in the case of more than one substituent may be the same or different, or is optionally di-substituted at two adjacent carbon atoms, which are available for substitution, to form an aromatic fused bicyclic system; and X is S, SO, SO.sub.2, O or CH.sub.2.

Abstract: Cephalosporin derivatives having a 3-position substituent of formula I are described: ##STR1## wherein R.sup.1 is hydrogen, alkenyl or optionally substituted alkyl, Het is a 5- or 6-membered heterocyclic ring bonded via a carbon atom to the amide linkage, wherein Het is selected from a group of the formulae II-III: ##STR2## wherein A is CH or a nitrogen atom; B is oxygen, sulphur or a group NR.sup.4 ; one or two of D, E, F and G are nitrogen atoms and the remainder are CH groups: or Het is a pyrazinone, pyridinone, pyridazinone or pyrimidinone ring, or is a thione equivalent of such a ring, said rings having a substituent R.sup.4 on one nitrogen atom, or is pyranone, or pyranthione; the ring Het being fused by any two adjacent carbon atoms to the benzene ring; and Het being attached to the --CH.sub.2 NR.sup.1 CO-- group via a carbon atom;R.sup.2 is hydroxy or an in vivo hydrolysable ester thereof;R.sup.3 is ortho to R.sup.2 and is hydroxy or an in vivo hydrolysable ester thereof; and R.sup.

Abstract: Provided is a process for 3' acetylation of 3-hydroxymethylcephalosporins under aqueous conditions.

Abstract: Cephalosporin antibiotics having a 3-position substituent of the formula: ##STR1## are described, wherein X is --CO--, --SO.sub.2 -- or --COCH.sub.2 --; Y is --CO--, --SO.sub.2 -- or --CH.sub.2 --; Q is a benzene, pyridine or naphthalene ring, R.sup.1 and R.sup.2 are ortho with respect to each other and are independently hydroxy or of the formula O--M wherein M is a moiety and the O--M bond is cleavable in vivo and ring Q may be further substituted by a variety of atoms and groups. Processes for their preparation and use are described.

Abstract: A novel thioalkylthio cephalosporin antibiotic compound of formula I: ##STR1## wherein Acyl is C.sub.1 -C.sub.12 acyl; Het is optionally substituted monocyclic heteroaromatic group containing one or more hetero atoms; R.sup.1 is a single bond or C.sub.1 -C.sub.4 alkylene; R.sub.2 is a straight or branched C.sub.1 -C.sub.4 alkylene; X is a sulfur atom or sulioxide group; and Y is a hydrogen atom or methoxy group, or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt or an amino-, carboxy- and/or hydroxy-protected derivative thereof, a formulation containing the same and a method for treating bacterial infections.

Abstract: A compound of formula I ##STR1## wherein X is sulfur or CH.sub.2 ;R.sup.1 is hydrogen, hydroxy, amino, C.sub.1-6 alkyl, C.sub.2-6 alkenyl, C.sub.2-6 alkynyl, phenyl optionally substituted with one to three C.sub.1-6 alkyl, C.sub.1-6 alkyloxy or hydroxy, C.sub.1-6 alkylthio, phenylthio optionally substituted with one to three C.sub.1-6 alkyl or C.sub.1-6 alkyloxy on the phenyl ring, phenylmethyloxy optionally substituted with one to three C.sub.1-6 alkyl or C.sub.1-6 alkyloxy on the phenyl ring, 1-morpholino, C.sub.1-6 alkyloxy, C.sub.2-6 alkenylmethyloxy, C.sub.3-6 alkynylmethyloxy, C.sub.1-6 alkylamino, C.sub.1-6 dialkylamino or a radical selected from the group consisting of ##STR2## in which n is 0 to 3, R.sup.5 is C.sub.1-6 alkyl or hydrogen, and R.sup.3 and R.sup.4 are independently C.sub.1-6 alkyl;R.sup.2 is hydrogen, a conventional amino protecting group or an acyl group;R.sup.0 is hydrogen or a conventional carboxy protecting group, or --CO.sub.2 R.sup.

Abstract: The present invention provides a process for preparing a cephem derivative characterized in that an allenyl .beta.-lactam compound represented by the formula (1) ##STR1## wherein R.sup.1 is amino or protected amino, R.sup.2 is a hydrogen atom or lower alkoxyl, R.sup.3 is a hydrogen atom or carboxylic acid protecting group and X is the group --SO.sub.2 R.sup.4 or --SR.sup.4, R.sup.4 being substituted or unsubstituted aryl or substituted or unsubstituted nitrogen-containing aromatic heterocyclic group is reacted with a nucleophilic agent to obtain the derivative, the cephem derivative being represented by the formula (2) ##STR2## wherein R.sup.1, R.sup.2 and R.sup.3 are as defined above, and Y is the residue of the nucleophilic agent.

Abstract: Disclosed herein are processes for preparing a compound of the formula ##STR1## in which a novel compound of the formula ##STR2## is reacted with a beta lactam of the formula ##STR3## by treatment with a base, wherein the symbols are as defined in the specification.

Abstract: There are presented antibacterial cephalosporins having broad antimicrobial activity as well as intermediates for their formation, such compounds having the formula ##STR1## wherein X is ##STR2## R is hydrogen or a carboxylic acid protecting group; R.sub.1 is hydrogen or an acyl group;R.sub.2 is hydrogen or lower alkoxy; andR.sub.3 is carbocyclic aryl or alkyl carbocyclic aryl substituted on the ring with two or more of hydroxy and/or lower alkanoyl ester groups, with halogen being an optional additional ring substituent;as well as the corresponding readily hydrolyzable esters, pharmaceutically acceptable salts and hydrates of these compounds where R is hydrogen.

Abstract: Process for the preparation of 7.beta.-amino-3-substituted methyl-3-cephem-4-carboxylic acid derivatives, new intermediates comprising 7.beta.-(cyclo)alkylideneammonio-3-halomethyl-3-cephem-4-carbox ylic acid derivatives and 7.beta.-amino/ammonio-3-bromomethyl-3-cephem-4-carboxylic acid derivatives and the processes for the preparation of these intermediates.

Abstract: 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.

Abstract: This invention relates to a novel process for making a cephem of formula II from 2-(3-amino-2-oxo-azetidin-1-yl)-2,3-butadienoate of formula I. In another aspect, this invention is concerned with a process of further converting a compound of formula II into an antibacterial cephem of formula III. ##STR1## In formulae I, II and III, R.sup.1 is hydrogen, a conventional amino protecting group or an acyl group; R.sup.2 is an aromatic heterocyclic or aryl group; R.sup.3 is a conventional carboxy protecting group or --CO.sub.2 R.sup.3 taken together forms a physiologically hydrolyzable ester; and R.sup.4 is a group selected from the group consisting of C.sub.1-6 alkyl, C.sub.2-6 alkenyl, C.sub.2-6 alkynyl, cyclic C.sub.3-6 alkyl, and aryl; and n is 0 or 2.

Abstract: Antibacterial compounds of the formula ##STR1## in which R.sub.1 is a cyclic or secondary acyclic amino group which independently has antibacterial activity;R.sub.2 is hydrogen, lower alkoxy, lower alkylthio or formamido;R.sub.3 is hydrogen or an organic group bonded through carbon, oxygen, sulfur or nitrogen;R.sub.4 is an electronegative acidic group; or R.sub.3 and R.sub.4 together form a heterocycle; andR.sub.5 is hydrogen or lower alkyl, except when R.sub.3 and R.sub.4 form a heterocycle, in which case R.sub.5 is hydrogen only; and methods of using same.

Abstract: .beta.-Lactam compounds of the formula (I) including pharmaceutically acceptable salts and in vivo hydrolysable esters, processes for their preparation and their use as antibiotics: ##STR1## wherein R.sup.1 is hydrogen, methoxy or formamido;R.sup.2 is an acyl group, in particular that of an antibacterially active cephalosporin;R.sup.3 is hydrogen or a readily removable carboxy protecting group (such as a pharmaceutically acceptable in-vivo hydrolysable ester group);R.sup.4 is a .gamma.- or .delta.-lactone ring optionally containing one or (where applicable) two endocyclic double bonds, which ring is optionally substituted at any carbon atom by alkyl, dialkylamino, alkoxy, hydroxy, halogen or aryl, which in the case of more than one substituent may be the same or different, or is optionally di-substituted at two adjacent carbon atoms, which are available for substitution, to form an aromatic fused bicyclic system; x and y are independently 0 or 1; X is S, SO, SO.sub.2, O or CH.sub.2 ; and Y is O or S.

Abstract: Cephalosporin antibiotics having a 3-position substituent of the formula:--CH.sub.2 NR.sup.1 --Y--A--Z--Qare described, wherein R.sup.1 is hydrogen or certain optionally substituted alkyl groups; Y is --CO-- or --SO.sub.2 --; A is optionally substituted phenylene or heterocyclylene; Z is a linking group and Q is a catechol or related ring system. Processes for their preparation and use are described.

Abstract: There are presented anti-bacterial cephalosporins having broad antimicrobial activity of the formula ##STR1## wherein R.sub.1 is an antibiotically active quinolonyl; R.sub.2 is selected from the group consisting of hydrogen, lower alkoxy, amino, lower alkylthio and amido; R.sub.3 is selected from the group consisting of hydrogen, and acyl group, and m is 0, 1 or 2 and the readily hydrolysable esters or salts of these compounds and hydrates of the compounds of formula I or of their esters or salts.

Abstract: Antibacterial hydroxyarylpiperazinocephalosporins of the formula: ##STR1## wherein R.sup.1 is amino or acylamino; R.sup.2 is H or methoxy; R.sup.3 is alkyl; R.sup.4 is --(P--C--Q).sub.n --, where P and Q each are H, alkyl or OH, or P and Q combine to form oxo, and n is 0 or 4; R.sup.5 is substituted or unsubstituted hydroxyaryl; R.sup.6 has a negative charge and is COO, or an anion in combination with an optionally protected carboxy; and X is O, S or S.fwdarw.O; an antibacterial preparation containing the same; a method for killing bacteria and preventing or treating bacterial infection by using the same; and syntheses of the cephalosporins are provided.

Abstract: An antibacterial 3-vic-dihydroxyaroylmethylpyridiniothiomethyl cephalosporin (I) and its salts represented by the following formula: ##STR1## (wherein, R.sup.1 is amino group or acylamino; R.sup.2 is hydrogen or methoxy; R.sup.3 is hydrogen atom or substituent; R.sup.4 is vic-dihydroxyaryl; R.sup.5 is straight or branched lower alkylene; R.sup.6 is hydrogen, a carboxy-protecting group or combined with Y a negative charge; X is --O--, --S-- or sulfinyl; and Y is a counter-ion of pyridinio or combined with R.sup.6 a negative charge),a disinfecting and treating method of bacterial infection using it, and synthetic methods thereof are provided.

Abstract: New substituted cephalosporin sulfones are found to be potent elastase inhibitors and thereby useful anti-inflammatory/antidegenerative agents.

Abstract: Cephalosporin antibiotics having a 3-position substituent of the formula: ##STR1## are described; wherein R.sup.1 is hydrogen or certain substituted alkyl groups, Z is CH or N, R.sup.2 and R.sup.3 are hydroxy or in vivo hydrolysable esters thereof, (R.sup.12).sub.n represents various optional substituents and X=Y is an olefin, oxime, azo or related group. Processes for their preparation and use are described.

Abstract: This invention relates to novel cephalosporin derivatives of the formula ##STR1## wherein R.sup.1 is hydrogen, a straight, branched, or cyclic lower alkyl group having up to six carbon atoms or a radical of the formula ##STR2## in which R.sup.3 and R.sup.4 are each independently hydrogen, methyl or ethyl, or R.sup.3 and R.sup.4, taken together with the carbon atom to which they are attached, may be a cycloalkylidene ring containing from 3 to 5 carbon atoms;R.sup.2 is a radical selected from the group consisting of ##STR3## wherein R.sup.5 is hydrogen or acetyl; R.sup.6, R.sup.7 and R.sup.8 each are independently C.sub.1-5 alkyl; n is 1 or 2; and y is 1 to 5.In another aspect, this invention relates to compounds of formula I and their nontoxic pharmaeutically acceptable salts, physiologically hydrolyzable esters or solvates.Representative compounds of this invention were selected for testing and were shown to display potent antibacterial activity.

Abstract: A regeneratable polymer-supported Pd(O) catalytic deblocking process using a regeneratable polymer-supported Pd(O) catalyst in a biphasic system deblocks various allyl-protected ester, carbonates, carbamates and cinnamyl esters.

Abstract: Cephalosporin compounds having a 3-position substituent of the formula (I) are described:--CH.sub.2 --Y--Q (I)wherein Y is a bond or a linking group --NR.sup.4 --Y'--, --O--Y'--, 13 S--Y'-- wherein R.sup.4 is hydrogen, various optionally substituted alkyl groups, alkenyl, alkanoyl or alkanesulphonyl, and Y' is a bond or various optionally substituted alkylene groups; and Q is a benzene ring (optionally fused to a further benzene ring so forming a naphthyl group or optionally fused to a 5 or 6 membered heterocyclic aromatic group containing 1, 2 or 3 heteroatoms selected from nitrogen, oxygen and sulphur), said benzene ring being substituted by groups R.sup.1 and R.sup.2 which are ortho with respect to one another, wherein R.sup.1 is hydroxy or an in vivo hydrolyzable ester thereof and R.sup.2 is hydroxy, and in vivo hydrolyzable ester thereof, carboxy, sulpho, hydroxymethyl, methanesulphonamido or ureido; or Q is a group of the formula (II) or (III): ##STR1## wherein M is oxygen or a group NR.sup.3 wherein R.

Abstract: A process for synthesizing 3-acryloxymethyl antibacterialcephalosporin compounds of formula ##STR1## wherein R is hydrogen or a carboxylic acid protecting group; R.sup.1 is hydrogen or an acyl group; R.sup.2 is hydrogen or lower alkoxy; and R.sup.3 is carbocyclic aryl substituted on the ring with one or more members selected from the group consisting of hydroxy, lower alkyl, amino, cyano, lower alkoxy, halogen and alkylcarboxy,as well as the corresponding readily hydrolyzable esters, pharmaceutically acceptable salts and hydrates of these compounds where R is hydrogen, in which a 2-carboxylic acid 3-hydroxymethyl cephalosporin compound is first treated with an organic base to form an organic salt therewith, followed by acylation of the 3-hydroxymethyl substituent.

Abstract: A compound of formula I ##STR1## wherein X is sulfur or CH.sub.2 ;R.sup.1 is hydrogen, hydroxy, amino, C.sub.1-6 alkyl, C.sub.2-6 alkenyl, C.sub.2-6 alkynyl, phenyl optionally substituted with one to three C.sub.1-6 alkyl, C.sub.1-6 alkyloxy or hydroxy, C.sub.1-6 alkylthio, phenylthio optionally substituted with one to three C.sub.1-6 alkyl or C.sub.1-6 alkyloxy on the phenyl ring, phenylmethyloxy optionally substituted with one to three C.sub.1-6 alkyl or C.sub.1-6 alkyloxy on the phenyl ring, 1-morpholino, C.sub.1-6 alkyloxy, C.sub.2-6 alkenylmethyloxy, C.sub.3-6 alkynylmethyloxy, C.sub.1-6 alkylamino, C.sub.1-6 dialkylamino or a radical selected from the group consisting of ##STR2## in which n is 0 to 3, R.sup.5 is C.sub.1-6 alkyl or hydrogen, and R.sup.3 and R.sup.4 are independently C.sub.1-6 alkyl;R.sup.2 is hydrogen, a conventional amino protecting group or an acyl group;R.sup.0 is hydrogen or a conventional carboxy protecting group, or --CO.sub.2 R.sup.

Abstract: Superior method for the removal of the methyl or ethyl ester group from cephalosporin and carbacephalosporin carboxylic acids.

Abstract: Compounds of formulae Ia and Ib ##STR1## wherein A is hydrogen atom or an organic residue, R.sup.1 is halogen atom, or an organic group, R.sup.2 is hydrogen or halogen atom, C.sub.1 -C.sub.4 alkyl or alkoxy group, R.sup.3 is hydrogen atom, C.sub.1 -C.sub.4 alkyl or alkoxy group, benzyl or a methylene group and R.sub.4 is an organic residue are disclosed. Compounds (Ia) and (Ib) are endowed with elastase inhibitory activity. A two-step process for their preparation starting from the corresponding 4-carboxy cephem or 3-carboxy penam is also provided.

Abstract: There is described a process for producing exomethylene cepham intermediates useful in cephalosporin chemistry. The process comprises the preparation of a compound of the formula ##STR1## in which R.sup.1 is an amino group, a protected amino group, an acylamino group or a diacylamino group,R.sup.2 is hydrogen, C.sub.1-4 alkoxy or C.sub.1-4 alkylthio,R.sup.3 is hydrogen, a salt ion or an ester-forming group, andR.sup.4 is hydrogen or C.sub.1-3 alkyl,by reacting a compound of the formula ##STR2## in which Y is a bridging group of the formula ##STR3## Z is chloro, bromo or iodo, and R.sup.1, R.sup.2, R.sup.3 and R.sup.4 have the above defined values, with a reagent providing cobalt I, under reducing conditions.

Abstract: A novel process and intermediates used therein for linking a cephalosporin compound to a quinolone are disclosed. According to the disclosed process, the 2-carboxylic acid moiety of the cephalosporin compound is treated with an organic base. The resulting salt is then reacted with a quinolone compound which has been activated using a haloformate. The reaction is run in a non-aqueous organic solvent. 4-Dimethylaminopyridine is used to promote the reaction between the cephalosporin salt and the activated quinolone.

Abstract: Cephalosporin antibiotics having a 3-position substituent of the formula: ##STR1## are described; wherein R.sup.1 is hydrogen or certain substituted alkyl groups, Z is CH or N, R.sup.2 and R.sup.3 are hydroxy or in vivo hydrolysable esters thereof, (R.sup.12).sub.n represents various optional substituents and X=Y is an olefin, oxime, azo or related group. Processes for their preparation and use are described.

Abstract: .beta.-Lactam antibiotics of the formula (Ia) or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt or pharmaceutically acceptable in vivo hydrolysable ester thereof are disclosed: ##STR1## wherein R.sup.1 is hydrogen, methoxy or formamido; R.sup.2 is a acyl group, in particular that of an antibacterially active cephalosporin; CO.sub.2 R.sup.6 is carboxy group or a carboxylate anion; R.sup.4 is a butenolide or butanolide ring, optionally substituted by one or two alkyl, dialkylamino, alkoxy, hydroxy or aryl groups, which may be the same or different, or, wherein two adjacent carbon atoms which are available for substitution define the common bond of an aromatic fused bicyclic system; X is S, SO, SO.sub.2, O or CH.sub.2 ; and the dashed line adjacent to R.sup.4 represents an optional double bond. Processes for the preparation of compounds together with intermediates for use therein are disclosed.

Abstract: Cephalosporin antibiotics having a 3-position substituent of the formula:--CH.sub.2 NR.sup.1 --Y--A--Z--Qare described, wherein R.sup.1 is hydrogen or certain optionally substituted alkyl groups; Y is --CO-- or --SO.sub.2 --; A is optionally substituted phenylene or heterocyclylene; Z is a linking group and Q is a catechol or related ring system. Processes for their preparation and use are described.

Abstract: Cephalosporin derivatives of the formulae ##STR1## wherein X is sulphur, oxygen, methylene or sulphinyl, R3 is hydrogen or methoxy, R54 is hydrogen or a carboxyl protecting group, R.sup.51 is a (1-4C)alkyl group, R.sup.4 is hydrogen, (1-4C)alkyl, halo(1-4C)alkyl, hydroxy(1-4C)alkyl, (1-4C)alkoxy(1-4C)alkyl, carboxy (1-4C)alkyl, amino (1-4C)alkyl, cyano(1-4C)alkyl, (1-4C)alkanoylamino(1-4C)alkyl, allyl, furfuryl, benzyl or pyridyl(1-4C)alkyl and R.sup.52 is an amino protecting group and salts thereof are useful as intermediates in the preparation of cephalosporin antibiotics.

Abstract: A cephalosporin derivative having the formula: ##STR1## wherein R.sup.1 is a substituted amino group, X is an alkylene group, R.sup.2 is an aryl or heterocyclic group which may be substituted and R.sup.3 is a hydrogen atom, a negative charge or a residue of an ester which can form a pharmaceutically acceptable ester hydrolyzable in a living body; or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof.

Abstract: A cephalosporin derivative of the formula I: ##STR1## in which X is ##STR2## represents one of C-7 acyl groups known in the cephalosporin art, R3 is hydrogen or methoxy, R4 is hydrogen, optionally substituted alkyl or allyl, and R5 is an aromatic heterocyclic ring system which is linked via carbon, and which contains a quaternized nitrogen atom.

Abstract: The invention provides a free radical process for preparing 1-carba(1-dethia)cephalosporin antibiotics with 2-substituted methylcephalosporin 1,1-dioxides wherein the substituent on the 2-methylene group is a free radical precursor group such as a phenyl or alkylseleno group. The latter dioxides are treated with a free radical initiator, e.g., a trialkyltin hydride or actinic radiation at 40.degree. C. to 150.degree. C. to provide the 1-carba-3-cephem and 1-carba-2-cephem products. The invention also provides free radical compounds formed as intermediates in the process.

Abstract: A novel process is disclosed for preparing a 3-substituted methyl-3-cephem-4-carboxylic acid or pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof. The process comprises reacting a 3-acetoxymethyl-3-cephem-4-carboxylic acid or pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof with a specific compound, such as a boric acid ester, an orthoester or an acetal, in the presence of at least one specific catalyst selected from the group consisting of Lewis acids or complexes thereof, proton acids and mixtures thereof. In the process, formation of impurities, such as a lactone, is sufficiently suppressed without protection of the carboxylic acid, so that the high purity desired product, i.e., a 3-substituted-methyl-3-cephem-4-carboxylic acid or pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, which is useful as an intermediate for various cephalosporin antibiotics having excellent antimicrobial activity, can be prepared in one step in high yield.

Abstract: .beta.-Lactam antibiotics have the formula (Ia) or are pharmaceutically acceptable salts or pharmaceutically acceptable in vivo hydrolysable esters thereof: ##STR1## in which the group CO.sub.2 R.sup.1 is carboxy or a carboxylate anion. The use of the compounds and processes for their preparation are disclosed.

Abstract: A compound of the formula ##STR1## in which R.sup.1 is a group of the formula: ##STR2## wherein R.sup.4 is lower alkyl and R.sup.5 is amino or a protected amino group, R.sup.2 lower alkoxymethyl, lower alkylthiomethyl or lower alkenylthiomethyl, R.sup.3 is carboxy or a protected carboxy group, and A is lower alkylene which may have a substituent selected from the groups consisting of amino, a protected amino group, hydroxy, oxo and a group of the formula:.dbd.N.about.OR.sup.6, wherein R.sup.6 is hydrogen, lower alkenyl, lower alkynyl, lower alkyl, or lower alkyl substituted by one or more substituent(s) selected from carboxy, a protected carboxy group, amino, a protected amino group and a heterocyclic group, and a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, its preparation and its utility as an antimicrobial agent.

Abstract: Reaction of a 7-aminocephalosporanic acid with a carboxylic acid in the presence of a dehydration condensing agent and an acid or acid complex provides the corresponding amide in high yield and high purity.

Abstract: Cephalosporin derivatives having a 3-position substituent of the formula I are described: ##STR1## wherein R.sup.1 is hydrogen, alkenyl or optionally substituted alkyl, Het us a 5- or 6-membered heterocyclic ring bonded via a carbon atom to the amide linkage, wherein Het is selected from a group of the formulae II-III: ##STR2## wherein A is CH or a nitrogen atom; B is oxygen, sulphur or a group NR.sup.4 ; one or two of D, E, F and G are nitrogen atoms and the remainder are CH groups: or Het is a pyrazinone, pyridinone, pyridazinone or pyrimidinone ring, or is a thione equivalent of such a ring, said rings having a substituent R.sup.4 on one nitrogen atom, or is pyranone, or pyranthione; the ring Het being fused by any adjacent carbon atoms to the benzene ring; and Het being attached to the --CH.sub.2 NR.sup.1 CO-- group via a carbon atom;R.sup.2 is hydroxy or an in vivo hydrolyzable ester thereof;R.sup.3 is ortho to R.sup.2 and is hydroxy or an in vivo hydrolyzable ester thereof; and R.sup.

Abstract: Cephalosporin compounds having a 3-position substituent of the formula (I) are described:--CH.sub.2 --Y--Q (I)wherein Y is a linking group --NR.sup.4 CO--Y'--, --NR.sup.4 SO.sub.2 --Y'--, --OCO--Y;-- or --SCO--Y'-- wherein R.sup.4 is hydrogen, various optionally substituted alkyl groups or alkenyl and Y' is a bond or various optionally substituted alkylene or alkenylene groups; and Q is a benzene ring (optionally fused to a further benzene ring so forming a naphthyl group or optionally fused to a 5 or 6 membered heterocyclic aromatic group containing 1, 2 or 3 heteroatoms selected from nitrogen, oxygen and sulphur), said benzene ring (or in the case of naphthyl either benzene ring) being substituted by groups R.sup.1 and R.sup.2 which are ortho with respect to one another, wherein R.sup.1 is hydroxy or an in vivo hydrolyzable ester thereof and R.sup.

Abstract: Cephalosporins having a 3-position substituent of the formula: ##STR1## are described, wherein R.sup.5 is hydrogen, alkenyl, alkyl or substituted alkyl, Q is a mono- or bicyclic heterocyclic ring, variously substituted, Y is variously substituted alkylene, Y' represents various linking groups, m and n are independently zero or one, and P is a benzene ring with two ortho groups, one of which is hydroxy or an in-vivo hydrolysable ester thereof and the other is hydroxy, an in vivo hydrolysable ester thereof, carboxy, sulpho, hydroxymethyl, --NHSO.sub.2 CH.sub.3 or --NHCONH.sub.2 ; or P is a particularly substituted pyridone or pyranone. The use of such compounds as antibacterial agents is described, as are processes for their preparation.

Abstract: Described herein is a cephem derivative represented by the general formula: ##STR1## wherein n stands for 1 or 2, Y stands for CH or nitrogen atom, R.sub.1 represents a lower hydrocarbon group or a carboxyl-substituted, a carbamoyl-substituted, or a cyclopropyl-substituted lower alkyl group, and R.sub.2 denotes hydroxyl group, a lower alkyl group, a hydroxy-substituted lower alkyl group, or carbamoyl group. The derivative is useful as an antibacterial composition. Also described herein are processes for the production of the derivative, antibacterial composition, intermediate of the derivative and process for the production thereof.

Abstract: Cephalosporin compounds having as a 3-substituent the group: ##STR1## wherein Y represents a bond, optionally substituted alkylene or --CH.sub.2 CH.sub.2 NHCO--, P is a benzene ring substituted by groups W and Z ortho with respect to one another wherein W is hydroxy or an in vivo hydrolyzable ester thereof, Z is hydroxy, an in vivo hydrolyzable ester thereof, carboxy, sulpho, hydroxymethyl, --NHSO.sub.2 CH.sub.3 or NHCONH.sub.2, Q is a mono- or bicyclic ring system substituted by R.sup.7 wherein R.sup.7 is hydrogen or a range of groups and ring Q is optionally further substituted; are described as antibacterial agents. Processes for their preparation and their methods of use are described.

Abstract: A process is provided for the preparation of 3-methylene and 3-halomethylene cepham derivatives via 3-phosphoniomethyl-3-cephem derivatives, which in turn can be prepared from 3-halomethyl-3-cephem derivatives. The preparation can be carried out with or without isolating the intermediate phosphonium cephem compounds. The 3-methylene and 3-halomethylene cephem derivatives and in particular the 1-oxo and 1,1-dioxo cephem compounds are also prepared by reducing a 3-halomethyl-3-cephem derivative with activated metal, preferably zinc or magnesium.

Abstract: Substituted 1,3-dithietane-2-carboxylic acid derivatives useful as intermediates for the preparation of highly effective penicillin and cephalosporin derivatives and the preparation thereof.

Abstract: Antibacterially active and animal growth-promoting novel .beta.-lactam compounds of the formula ##STR1## in which R.sup.1 represents the radical ##STR2## Y representing N or CR.sup.9, or Y--R.sup.7 representing ##STR3## Z representing O, S, or NR.sup.10, and R.sup.2 represents hydrogen or a protective group.