ISSN 1017-2548(Print)
ISSN 2234-8530(Online)
Volume 38, Number 9
JKCSEZ 38(9)
June 20, 1994 

Diels-Alder adducts, carbacephems were obtained when 4-acetoxyazetidine-2-one or (3R,4R)-4-acetoxy-3-[(1R)-1-(tert-butyldimethylsilyloxy)ethyl]azetidin-2-one was reacted with 2-(tert-butyldimethylsilyloxy)-1,3-butadiene or with 3-(tert-butyldimethylsilyloxy)-1,3-pentadiene. When tert-butyldiemethylsilyl acrylate was used as the diene, products in which was acetoxy group of 4-acetoxyazetidin-2-one derivatives was substituted by an acryloyloxy group were isolated. When the same reaction was carried out with 4-phenylsulfonylazetidin-2-one as a dienophile with 2-(tert-butyldimethylsilyloxy)-1,3-butadiene, 4-phenylsulfoyl-2-butanone was obtained instead of the expected carbacephem. When dimeric form of thiochalcone was reacted with 4-acetoxyazetidin-2-one in the presence of zinc chloride, the β-lactam ring of the azetidin-2-one was destructed and no product was isolated. Also, the reaction of 2-trimethylsilyloxy-1-aza-1,3-butadiene, which was obtained from N-methylacrylamide by treatment of trimethylsilyl trifluoromethanesulfonate in the presence of triethylamine, with 4-acetoxyazetidin-2-one did not give any products.