Stereospecific synthesis of a 1 beta-methylcarbapenem intermediate.
1997
K Oda, and
T Nishi
Chemical Research Laboratories, Sankyo Company Limited, Tokyo, Japan.
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Stereoisomerism
The phenomenon whereby compounds whose molecules have the same number and kind of atoms and the same atomic arrangement, but differ in their spatial relationships. (From McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Scientific and Technical Terms, 5th ed)
A group of beta-lactam antibiotics in which the sulfur atom in the thiazolidine ring of the penicillin molecule is replaced by a carbon atom. THIENAMYCINS are a subgroup of carbapenems which have a sulfur atom as the first constituent of the side chain.