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Process for the manufacture of 3-methylene-cepham compounds
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, (2008/06/13)
Compounds of the formula STR1 wherein R1a represents hydrogen or an amino protective group R1A and R1b represents hydrogen or an acyl group Ac, or R1a and R1b together represent a bivalent amino protective group, and R2 represents hydroxyl or a radical R2A which together with the carbonyl grouping --C(=O)-- forms a protected carboxyl group, as well as 1-oxides thereof, and salts of such compounds with salt-forming groups, are prepared from compounds of the formula STR2 wherein R1a and R1b have the above mentioned meaning, R denotes an acyloxy group, R2a has the meaning of R2 or R and R2o together denote an epoxy group, from a 1-oxide thereof or a salt of such a compound, by reduction with a metal which has a normal potential of -2.4 to -0.40 volt, or an amalgam thereof, at a pH of 1 to 8, in the presence of water.
