Cephem derivatives

US4399131A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• Hoechst GmbH · DE

Inventors

• Walter Durckheimer · Hattersheim, DE
• Eberhard Ehlers · Hofheim, DE
• Hubert Seliger · Frankfurt am Main, DE
• Elmar Schrinner · Wiesbaden, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: May 5, 1980
• Grant date: Aug 16, 1983
• Expiry date: May 5, 2000

Classification

• Technology area (CPC Y): Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
• CPC primary: Y02P20/55
• WIPO field: Organic fine chemistry
• WIPO sector: Chemistry

Abstract

What are disclosed are cephem compounds of the formula ##STR1## in which R.sub.1 denotes hydrogen, an optionally substituted alkyl, acyl, arylsulfonyl or alkylsulfonyl group or an amino-protective group which is known from peptide chemistry, R.sub.2 denotes hydrogen or an optionally substituted alkyl, alkenyl, alkinyl, cycloalkyl, aralkyl, acyl, aryl, arylsulfonyl, alkylsulfonyl or heterocyclic group, R.sub.3 denotes hydrogen, an ester group or a cation, R.sub.4 denotes hydrogen, a lower alkoxy group or a group which can be converted to this, X denotes a SO group in the R or S configuration or a SO.sub.2 group and A denotes hydrogen, an optionally substituted alkoxy or alkenyloxy group, halogen or a group --CH.sub.2 Y, in which Y represents hydrogen, halogen or the radical of a nucleophilic compound, and in which the R.sub.2 O group is in the syn-position, which compounds are valuable chemotherapeutic agents having a very powerful antimicrobial action against Gram-positive and Gram-negative bacteria and an unexpectedly good action against penicillinase-forming Staphilococci.