Abstract: A process is disclosed for the preparation of 21-bromo-4-pregnene-3,20-dione derivatives of general Formula I ##STR1## wherein R.sub.1 is a hydrogen atom, a hydroxy group or an alkanoyl group of up to 6 carbon atoms,R.sub.2 symbolizes a hydrogen atom or a methyl group, or whereinR.sub.1 and R.sub.2 jointly mean an isopropylidenedioxy group,whereinR.sub.3 is a hydrogen atom, a fluorine atom or a methyl group,V is a methylene group or ethylene group,X is a hydrogen atom, a fluorine atom or a chlorine atom, andY is a methylene group, a hydroxymethylene group or a carbonyl group.

Abstract: A new class of cephalosporin derivatives is provided, which is useful as antibacterial agent to be particularly suitable for oral administrations in mammals including man, and which is represented by general formula (I) ##STR1## wherein R.sup.1 is a hydrogen atom or a lower alkyl group; R.sup.2 is a hydrogen atom or an ester-forming group capable of being cleaved easily with an esterase existing in the digestive tracts; n is an integer of zero or 1; Z is a saturated heterocyclic group containing one or two oxygen atoms as the hetero-atoms with or without one or more lower alkyl substituents, or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof.

Abstract: Antimicrobial quinolone thiourea compounds of the general formula: ##STR1## wherein (1) A.sup.1, A.sup.2, A.sup.3, R.sup.1, R.sup.3, R.sup.4, and R.sup.6 form any of a variety of quinolone and related heterocyclic structures similar to those known in the art to have antimicrobial activity; and(2)(1) R.sup.1 is X, R.sup.3 is X, or both R.sup.1 and R.sup.3 are X; and(2) X is --R.sup.15 --N(R.sup.16)(R.sup.17) or --R.sup.15 --R.sup.18 --N(R.sup.19)(R.sup.17), where(a)(1) R.sup.15 is nil, alkyl, a carbocyclic ring, or a heterocyclic ring; and(2) R.sup.16 is hydrogen; alkyl; alkenyl; a carbocyclic ring; a heterocyclic ring; or(3) when X is R.sup.15 --N(R.sup.16)(R.sup.17), R.sup.16 and R.sup.15 may together comprise a heterocyclic ring including the nitrogen atom to which R.sup.15 and R.sup.16 are bonded;(b) R.sup.17 is C(.dbd.S)--NR.sup.20 R.sup.21 ; where R.sup.20 is, hydrogen, alkyl, alkenyl, a carbocyclic ring or a heterocyclic ring; and R.sup.21 is R.sup.20 or N(R.sup.20)(R.sup.20); or R.sup.20 and R.sup.

Abstract: The invention relates to a substantially anhydrous crystalline cefadroxil having a water content between about 0.8% and 3.9%.Such cefadroxil is obtained slurrying a cefadroxil solvate of dimethylacetamide, or of N-methyl-2-pyrrolidone or of monomethylformamide, with isopropyl alcohol with up to 4% of water and preferably in the presence of methanol in an amount lower than 60%, at a temperature of about +45.degree. C. to +55.degree. C. and then filtering the so obtained compound.

Abstract: There are presented antibacterial cephalosporins having broad antimicrobial activity as well as intermediates for their formation, such compounds having the formula ##STR1## wherein R is hydrogen or a carboxylic acid-protecting group; R.sub.1 is a substituted piperazinium group of the formula ##STR2## in which Q represents a substituted quinolinyl or naphthyridinyl group and the piperazine nucleus may be optionally substituted with one or more lower alkyl groups; R.sub.2 is selected from the group consisting of hydrogen, lower alkoxy, lower alkylthio and amido; R.sub.3 is hydrogen or an acyl group; and m is 0, 1 or 2, preferably 0;as well as the corresponding readily hydrolyzable esters, pharmaceutically acceptable salts and hydrates of these compounds.

Abstract: Bicyclo[4.3.0]1,4,7-triazanony-6-ene-5-one may be made easily, in good yield and in one step by reacting diethyl oxalate with a diethylene triamine. The bicyclo[4.3.0]1,4,7-triazanon-6-ene-5-one material made by this process may be used to selectively separate metal ions from solution, or complexed together with a metal ion act as a catalyst. Surprisingly, related bicyclic triazines do not show the ability to complex with metal ions and precipitate them from solution.

Abstract: The invention relates to new 3-substituted cephalosporins, a process for their preparation and their use as medicaments, in particular as medicaments having antibacterial activitity.

Abstract: Antibacterial compounds of the formula ##STR1## wherein n is 0 or 1, R is hydrogen or a radical forming an ester hydrolyzable under physiological conditions, and R.sup.1 is hydrogen or methyl; the pharmaceuticallyacceptable cationic salts thereof when R is hydrogen; pharmaceutical compositions thereof; a method of treating bacterial infections therewith; and intermediates useful in the synthesis of said compounds.

Abstract: 3-Piperidinyl-indazole derivatives and their pharmaceutically acceptable acid addition salts being useful antagonists of neurotransmitters; pharmaceutical compositions containing the same and a method of treating warm-blooded animals suffering from diseases associated with the release of said neutrotransmitters.

Abstract: Antibacterial compounds of the formula ##STR1## wherein R is a mononuclear carbocyclic aromatic group, a 5-membered aromatic heterocyclic group which contains as the hereto (non-carbon) ring member(s) an oxygen or sulphur atom or an imino or lower alkylimino group and, optionally, one or two nitrogen atoms, or a 6-membered aromatic heterocyclic group which contains one to three nitrogen atoms as the hereto ring member(s); R.sup.1 is hydrogen or a 3-substituent which is usable in cephalosporin chemistry; A is lower alkylene or C.sub.3-7 -cycloalkylene which is optionally substituted with carboxy, carbamoyl, lower alkylcarbamoyl or di(lower alkyl)carbamoyl; Q is lower alkylene or C.sub.3-7 -cycloalkylene which is optionally substituted with carboxy, carbamoyl, lower alkylcarbamoyl or di(lower alkyl)carbamoyl or the group --NR.sup.2 -- or --NR.sup.2 NR.sup.3 --; R.sup.2 and R.sup.3 are independently hydrogen or lower alkyl; p and m are the zero or 1, n is zero, 1 or 2; R.sup.

Abstract: A process for preparing B-lactam derivatives of the formula (I): ##STR1## wherein R.sup.1 represents hydrogen or a metal salt; and R.sup.2 represents hydrogen, acetoxy methyl, (2,5-dihydro-2-methyl-6-hydroxy-5-oxo-as-triazin-3-yl)thiomethyl or (1-methyl-1-H-tetrazol-5-yl)thiomethyl is disclosed. This process comprises the steps of (a) reacting triphenylphosphine and hexachloroethane or carbon tetrachloride with 2-(2-aminothiazol-4-yl)-2-syn-methoxyimino acetic acid in an organic solvent to give the corresponding acyloxyphosphonium chloride derivative of the formula: ##STR2## (b) acylating a previously silylated derivative of 7-ACA with this acyloxyphosphonium chloride derivative without its isolation.

Abstract: A pyrrolidylthiocarbapenem derivative represented by Formula I is provided: ##STR1## wherein R.sup.1 is hydrogen or lower alkyl; R.sup.2, R.sup.3 and R.sup.4 are hydrogen, lower alkyl which can be substituted or an amino protecting group independently, or R.sup.2 and R.sup.3 together with a nitrogen atom to which R.sup.2 and R.sup.3 are bonded form a saturated or unsaturated cyclic group, or R.sup.2 and R.sup.4, or R.sup.3 and R.sup.4 together with two nitrogen atoms and one sulfur atom in the sufamide group form a saturated or unsaturated cyclic group; each cyclic group can further include at least one atom selected from the group consisting of oxygen, sulfur and nitrogen, and each cyclic group can be substituted; X.sup.1 is hydrogen or a hydroxy protecting group; X.sup.2 is hydrogen, a carboxy protecting group, an ammonio group, an alkali metal or an alkaline-earth metal; and Y.sup.2 is hydrogen or an amino protecting group.

Abstract: Process for preparing optically active cis-3-hydroxy-2,3-dihydro-1,5-benzothiazepin-4(5H)-one compounds [I] of the formula: ##STR1## wherein Ring A and Ring B are substituted or unsubstituted benzene, R.sup.1 is hydrogen or di-lower alkylaminoalkyl, which comprises subjecting 1,5-benzothiazepin-4(5H)-one (II) of the formula [II]: ##STR2## wherein R.sup.4 is hydrogen or lower alkanoyl, and the other symbols are the same as defined above, to asymmetric reduction with a reaction product of optically active .alpha.-amino acid and metal hydride, in high optically yield, and said compounds [I] are very important as intermediate for preparing various medicines.

Abstract: A compound of the formula ##STR1## wherein R is selected from the group consisting of hydrogen, acyl of an organic carboxylic acid of 1 to 8 carbon atoms, allyloxycarbonyl, alkoxycarbonyl and aralkoxycarbonyl of up to 8 carbon atoms and alkylsulfonyl and arylsulfonyl of up to 8 carbon atoms and their use to prepare substituted 16,17-methylenedioxysteroids and novel intermediates.

Abstract: Cephalosporin derivatives of the general formula ##STR1## pharmaceutical preparations which are active against bacterial infections and contain such cephem derivatives, processes for the preparation of the cephem derivatives and the pharmaceutical preparations and the use of the cephem derivatives for combating bacterial infections.

Abstract: This invention relates to a process for preparing synergistic derivatives of formula (I), in which Y is hydrogen or dimethylamino, from pristinamycin I.sub.A or from virginiamycin, via a Mannich base, followed by elimination of the amine introduced.

Abstract: The present invention provides resorufin derivatives of the general formulae: ##STR1## wherein R.sup.1, R.sup.2, R.sup.3, R.sup.4 and R.sup.5, which can be the same or different, are hydrogen, halogen, carboxyl, carboxamido, lower alkoxycarbonyl, cyano or nitro groups or lower alkyl or lower alkoxy radicals, which can be substituted by carboxyl, carboxamido, lower alkoxycarbonyl, cyano or nitro groups, and wherein R.sup.4 and R.sup.5 can together also represent an anellated aromatic residue, Z is a bridge member, A is the residue of a ligand and n is a whole number of from 1 to 200.The present invention also provides processes for the preparation of these resorufin derivatives, as well as intermediates for the preparation thereof.

Abstract: The present invention provides a novel ester cleavage process for use with .beta.-lactams. The process is useful because of mild conditions necessary to complete the reaction, such conditions being especially suitable for .beta.-lactams.

Abstract: The invention relates to compounds, useful as intermediates in the preparation of products of antimicrobial activity, of the formula: ##STR1## wherein R.sup.3 is hydrogen, lower alkyl, hydroxy(lower)alkyl, protected hydroxy(lower)alkyl, amino(lower)alkyl, protected amino (lower) alkyl, carbamoyl)lower)alkyl, N,N-di(lower) alkylcarbamoyl(lower)alkyl or an amino protective group, andR.sup.4 is hydrogen, lower alkyl, carboxy, protected carboxy, amino, protected amino or carbamoyl,or a salt thereof.

Abstract: A crystalline form of (5R,6S)-2-carbamoyloxymethyl-6-[(1R)-hydroxyethyl]-2-penem-3-carboxylic acid incorporates two molecules of water per molecule of the acid and is useful as an antibacterial agent.