Abstract: A fabric cleaning composition comprising from 1% to 20% by weight of the fabric cleaning composition of an oxygen-based bleaching source and a hueing agent, and wherein the neat composition has a pH between 2.5 and 5.5, and a method of using said fabric cleaning composition.

Abstract: Novel 2-substituted methyl penam derivatives include the formula (I), their analogs, their tautomeric forms, their stereoisomers, their polymorphs, their solvates, their pharmaceutically acceptable salts, and pharmaceutical compositions containing them; wherein A=C or N; Het is a three- to seven-membered heterocyclic ring; R1 represents carboxylate anion, or —COOR4 where R4 represents hydrogen, carboxylic acid protecting group or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt; R2 and R3 may be same or different and independently represent hydrogen, halogen, amino, alkyl, protected amino, optionally substituted alkyl, alkenyl, alkynyl and the like; R represents substituted or unsubstituted alkyl, alkenyl, aryl, aralkyl, cycloalkyl, heterocyclyl or heterocyclylalkyl.

Abstract: Disclosed are a novel crystal of piperacillin sodium which has diffraction angles of 3.7°, 5.5°, 7.3°, 11.6°, 14.5° and 18.0° and a novel crystal of piperacillin sodium which has diffraction angles of 5.6°, 7.8°, 12.3°, 15.5°, 17.5°, 23.3°, 24.8° and 28.5° expressed by 2? in the powder X-ray diffraction analysis. The crystals have excellent stability and solubility and a low water-absorbing property, is extremely easy to be handled in the manufacturing process for a medicinal substance and in the packing during the preparation process for a pharmaceutical product. A pharmaceutical preparation for injection comprising any one of the crystals is useful.

Abstract: Compounds of structure: ##STR1## as well as their pharmaceutically-acceptable salts and biohydrolyzables esters, and hydrates thereof, are effective antiinfective agents, useful in treating and preventing infection.

Abstract: Tetrazolyl derivatives of .beta.-lactams are found to be potent elastase inhibitors and thereby useful anti-inflammatory/antidegenerative agents.