S. Negi et al., A PRACTICAL SYNTHETIC METHOD FOR 3-(N,N-DISUBSTITUTED CARBAMOYLOXY)-METHYL CEPHEMS WITHOUT GENERATING THE DELTA(2)-ISOMERS, Chemical and Pharmaceutical Bulletin, 43(6), 1995, pp. 1031-1034
E1101, a new oral cephalosporin, has a (N,N-dimethylcarbamoyloxy)methy
l group at the C-3 position of the cephem nucleus. The previous method
s for manufacturing 3-(N,N-disubstituted carbamoyloxy)methyl cephems g
enerate various amounts of intractable Delta(2) isomers as by-products
. In this report, we describe a new, practical synthetic method for ce
phems of this type without generating Delta(2) isomers, via amino-3-(4
-nitrophenoxycarbonyloxy)methyl-Delta(3) -cephem-4-carboxylic acid (5)
as a key intermediate.