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US 4,397,861 AGranted
N- And carboxyl derivatives of thienamycin
AssigneeMerck & Co., Inc.
InventorsBurton G. Christensen, John Hannah, William J. Leanza, David H. Shih
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Abstract
Disclosed are N-acyl and carboxyl derivatives of the antibiotic thienamycin, which has the following structure: ##STR1## Such derivatives are useful as antibiotics. Also disclosed are processes for the preparation of such derivatives, pharmaceutical compositions comprising such derivatives and methods of treatment comprising administering such derivatives and compositions when an antibiotic effect is indicated.
Claims4
A compound having the structural formula:
- ##STR92## wherein R is a member selected from the group consisting of loweralkyl which may be substituted with loweralkoxy, mono- and diloweralkylamino, loweralkanoyloxy, loweralkanoylthio, loweralkanoylamino, loweralkylthio and pivaloxy;
- loweralkenyl;
- benzyl which may be substituted with loweralkyl, loweralkoxy, phenoxy, halo, nitro and pivaloxy;
- benzhydryl, phenyl, nitrophenyl, phenacyl and bromophenacyl;
- and R' is a member selected from the group consisting of:
- ##STR93## wherein R" is a member selected from the group consisting of hydrogen;
- loweralkyl (R" is not methyl) which may be substituted by hydroxy, loweralkoxy, phenyl, phenoxy, halo, amino, diloweralkylamino and guanidino;
- loweralkenyl, thionitrophenyl, benzyloxy, nitrobenzyloxy, loweralkoxybenzyloxy, loweralkoxy, haloloweralkoxy, loweralkylamino, loweralkylthio and thiophenyl.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.