Abstract: The present invention provides new basically substituted pyridinecarboxamides having the formula I ##STR1## wherein R.sub.1 represents lower alkyl and --OR.sub.1 is in the adjacent position to the carboxamide group,R.sub.2 represents lower alkyl or an ethylene radical which is attached to one of the trivalent radicals designated as A and the nitrogen atom located between it to form a 6-membered ring,A represents a divalent saturated hydrocarbon radical which encompasses at most a single ring with 5 or 6 ring members and contains not more than 7 carbon atoms and whose two linkage positions are separated by (3-m) to 4 carbon atoms, or, if R.sub.2 is an ethylene radical, represents the 1-propanyl-3-ylidene radical, if m s 1, or the 1,2,4-butane-triyl radical, if m is 0,And one of the factors m and n is 0 and the other is 1, and, if desired, the ring B is further substituted, and the acid addition salts of the compounds of the formula I.

Abstract: The invention relates to 6-amino-2-penem-3-carboxylic acid compounds of the formula ##STR1## in which R.sub.1.sup.a denotes hydrogen or an amino protective group R.sub.1.sup.A and R.sub.1.sup.b represents hydrogen or an acyl radical Ac, or in which R.sub.1.sup.a and R.sub.1.sup.b conjointly form a bivalent amino protective group, R.sub.2 denotes hydroxyl or a radical R.sub.2.sup.A which, together with the carbonyl grouping --C(.dbd.0)--, forms a protected carboxyl group, and R.sub.3 represents hydrogen or an organic radical which is linked via a carbon atom to the ring carbon atom, and 1-oxides thereof, as well as salts of such compounds having salt-forming groups, which compounds possess antibiotic properties, processes for the manufacture of such compounds, and also pharmaceutical formulations containing compounds of the formula I with pharmacological properties, and the use thereof, either as antibiotics, preferably in the form of pharmaceutical formulations, or as intermediate products.

Abstract: Thioformamidophosphono-acetates are prepared by reacting an isocyano compound of the formula C=N--CH.sub.2 --X.sub.1 in the presence of a base with a compound of the formula R.sub.o --X.sub.2, in which compounds one of the groups X.sub.1 and X.sub.2 represents a protected carboxyl group of the formula --C(=O)--OR.sub.1 and the other a disubstituted phosphono group of the formula --P(.fwdarw.O)(OR).sub.2, and wherein R.sub.o represents a reactive etherified or esterified hydroxyl group, and adding hydrogen sulphide on to the isocyano group of the phosphono-isocyano-acetate formed as an intermediate.

Abstract: According to the present invention, 5-substituted resorcinols of the formula I ##STR1## wherein R.sub.1 represents a hydrocarbon radical, optionally unsubstituted or substituted by inert substituents, are prepared by reacting a carboxylic acid ester of the formula IIr.sub.1 -- c .tbd. c -- co -- o -- r.sub.2 (ii)wherein R.sub.2 represents a non-aromatically bound lower hydrocarbon radical, in the presence of an alkaline condensation agent, with a diester of 3-oxoglutaric acid of the formula IIIr.sub.3 --o--co--ch.sub.2 --co--ch.sub.2 --co--o--r.sub.4 (iii)wherein R.sub.3 and R.sub.4 represent non-aromatically bound lower hydrocarbon radicals; hydrolyzing the resulting dihydroxyisophthalic acid acid ester of the formula IV ##STR2## and decarboxylating the hydrolyzed product, a specific embodiment is the preparation of 5-pentylresorcinol.