M. Sunagawa et al., SYNTHETIC STUDIES OF CARBAPENEM AND PENEM ANTIBIOTICS .5. EFFICIENT SYNTHESIS OF THE 1-BETA-METHYLCARBAPENEM SKELETON, Chemical and Pharmaceutical Bulletin, 42(7), 1994, pp. 1381-1387
An efficient synthesis of 1 beta-methylcarbapenem from the 1-(2-oxoaze
tidinyl)acetate 8 was developed by application of the Dieckmann reacti
on. Dieckmann-type cyclization of 8 and conversion to the enolphosphat
e 10 were achieved without epimerization to the 1 alpha-methyl isomer
in a one-pot procedure. Treatment with the mercaptan 22 after the phos
phorylation resulted in a practical one-pot preparation of the 1 beta-
methylcarbapenem derivative 23 from 8.