| Abstract: | Research on the correlation between the Pummerer reaction mechanism and  -lactam formation during penicillin biosynthesis is discussed based on our silicon-induced asymmetric Pummerer type reaction.Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Toyama Medical and Pharmaceutical University, Sugitani 2630, Toyama 930-0194, Japan. Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Osaka University, 1–6 Yamada-oka, Suita, Osaka 565-0871, Japan. Published in Khimiya Geterotsiklicheskikh Soedinenii, No. 11, pp. 1463–1474, November, 1998. |
