J. Anaya et al., THE USE OF RADICAL DECARBOXYLATION IN THE PREPARATION OF 1-METHYLCARBAPENEM ANTIBIOTIC PRECURSORS FROM D-GLUCOSAMINE, Tetrahedron : asymmetry, 5(11), 1994, pp. 2137-2140
The stereocontrolled synthesis of optically active 1-methylcarbapenams
has been performed by radical cyclization and radical decarboxylation
. 1,3,4-Trisubstituted-2-azetidinones, prepared by the Staudinger reac
tion with D-glucosamine as chiral auxiliary and sorbic acid were used
as starting materials.