Antibiotics save countless human lives—modern medicine without them is unimaginable. The largest proportion by volume of industrially produced antibiotics today are cephalosporins, structural variants of the first antibiotic, penicillin. Unfortunately, their production generates a considerable amount of waste products, some of which are questionable. In the European Journal of Organic Chemistry, scientists have now demonstrated that a newly developed, more ecological synthetic route is suitable for the production of a wide variety of cephalosporin antibiotics.
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Source: Phys.org