Issue 2, 1987

Ring expansion of penams to cephams: a possible biomimetic process

Abstract

Homolytic reductive debromination of a 2β-bromomethyl penam by triphenyltin hydride provides, via ring expansion of the derived 2β-methyl radical, the corresponding cepham system; a similar process may explain the biosynthetic ring expansion of penicillins to cephalosporins.

Article information

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J. Chem. Soc., Chem. Commun., 1987, 104-106

Ring expansion of penams to cephams: a possible biomimetic process

J. E. Baldwin, R. M. Adlington, T. W. Kang, E. Lee and C. J. Schofield, J. Chem. Soc., Chem. Commun., 1987, 104 DOI: 10.1039/C39870000104

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