Anisole → HCID 88823284, compound

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t-Butyl (6R,7R and S [ca 1:8])-3-acetoxymethyl-7-methoxy-7[2-triphenylmethoxyimino-2-(thien-2-yl)-acetamido]-ceph-3-em-4-carboxylate (1.172 g, 1.56 mmole) was stirred with anisole (1.5 ml) and trifluoroaracetic acid (5 ml) for 1 hour at +20°. The solution was added dropwise to vigorously stirred saturated aqueous sodium bicarbonate solution (400 ml); the mixture was stirred for 10 minutes and then washed with ethyl acetate (3×80 ml). The aqueous layer was covered with ethyl acetate (80 ml) and adjusted to pH 3 with orthophosphoric acid. The aqueous layer was extracted with ethyl acetate (3×80 ml) and the combined ethyl acetate layers were washed with brine, then passed through Whatman l PS phase-separating paper and evaporated. The residual foam was chromatographed on kieselgel G (60 g) in 4:1:5 butan-l-ol:ethanol:water. The appropriate fractions were combined and evaporated and the residue was dissolved in acetone, filtered through Celite, and evaporated to provide the title compound as a pale-brown amorphous solid containing 0.8 mole butan-l-ol, and 0.07 mole acetone (nmr) and 5 mole water (416 mg, 0.66 mole, 42.5%), paper chromatography Rf/Rf cephaloram 0.84,[α]D +40° (Me2SO), λmax (pH 6-buffer) 264.5 nm, inflexion at 290 nm (ε15,200 and 10,700 respectively).

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