W. Cabri et al., THE TOTAL SYNTHESIS OF RITIPENEMS - CONSTRUCTION OF PENEM THIAZOLINE RING BY INCORPORATION OF 2 2C UNITS OF GLYCOLIC ACID, Tetrahedron letters, 34(21), 1993, pp. 3491-3492
Short syntheses of Ritipenem Acoxyl 1a and Ritipenem 1b are reported.
The syntheses start from R)-1-(t-butyldimethylsilyloxy)ethyl]azetidin-
2-one 3 and are based on the incorporation of two 2C units obtained by
manipulation of glicolyc acid 4.