Cephalosporin derivatives
AssigneeMeiji Seika Kaisha, Ltd.
InventorsYuichi Yamamoto, Tsuneo Okonogi, Seiji Shibahara, Shigeharu Inoue
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Abstract
A new class of cephalosporin derivatives is provided, which is useful as antibacterial agent to be particularly suitable for oral administrations in mammals including man, and which is represented by general formula (I) ##STR1## wherein R.sup.1 is a hydrogen atom or a lower alkyl group; R.sup.2 is a hydrogen atom or an ester-forming group capable of being cleaved easily with an esterase existing in the digestive tracts; n is an integer of zero or 1; Z is a saturated heterocyclic group containing one or two oxygen atoms as the hetero-atoms with or without one or more lower alkyl substituents, or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof.
Claims5
A cephalosporin derivative of formula (I):
- ##STR15## wherein R.sup.1 is a hydrogen atom or a lower alkyl group, R.sup.2 is a hydrogen atom or an ester-forming group capable of being cleaved easily with an esterase existing in the digestive tracts;
- n is an integer of zero or 1;
- Z is a tetrahydrofuranyl, tetrahydropyranyl, 1,3-dioxolanyl or 1,3-dioxanyl group which may be substituted by one or more lower alkyl groups, or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.