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Chemistry of Cephems: C-4 Substitution and Sulphoxide De-oxygenation Reactions.
Bremner, David H.,Ringan, Neil S.
, p. 1265 - 1272 (2007/10/02)
The anion derived from ceph-3-em esters adds readily to Michael acceptors to give C-4 disubstituted ceph-2-ems.Oxidation of a typical adduct, such as the 4-cyanoethyl-4-diphenylmethyl ester, followed by ester hydrolysis and decarboxylation, gives the 4-cyanoethylceph-3-em sulphoxide which is easily reduced to the sulphide.Furthermore, zinc-acetic acid in DMF (dimethylformamide) is found to be an effective, mild reagent for the de-oxygenation of ceph-2-em sulphoxides.