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Cefuroxime Axetil

United States Pharmacopeia (USP) Reference Standard

Synonym(s):

[6R-[6α,7β(Z)]]-3-[[(Aminocarbonyl)oxy]methyl]-7-[[2-furanyl(methoxyimino)acetyl]amino]-8-oxo-5-thia-1-azabicyclo[4.2.0]oct-2-ene-2-carboxylic acid 1-(acetyloxy)ethyl ester

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About This Item

Empirical Formula (Hill Notation):
C20H22N4O10S
CAS Number:
Molecular Weight:
510.47
MDL number:
UNSPSC Code:
41116107
PubChem Substance ID:
NACRES:
NA.24

grade

pharmaceutical primary standard

API family

cefuroxime

manufacturer/tradename

USP

application(s)

pharmaceutical (small molecule)

format

neat

storage temp.

2-8°C

SMILES string

O=C1[C@@H](NC(/C(C2=CC=CO2)=N\OC)=O)[C@]3([H])N1C(C(OC(C)OC(C)=O)=O)=C(COC(N)=O)CS3

InChI

1S/C20H22N4O10S/c1-9(25)33-10(2)34-19(28)15-11(7-32-20(21)29)8-35-18-14(17(27)24(15)18)22-16(26)13(23-30-3)12-5-4-6-31-12/h4-6,10,14,18H,7-8H2,1-3H3,(H2,21,29)(H,22,26)/b23-13-/t10?,14-,18-/m1/s1

InChI key

KEJCWVGMRLCZQQ-YJBYXUATSA-N

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General description

This product is provided as delivered and specified by the issuing Pharmacopoeia. All information provided in support of this product, including SDS and any product information leaflets have been developed and issued under the Authority of the issuing Pharmacopoeia.For further information and support please go to the website of the issuing Pharmacopoeia.

Application

Cefuroxime Axetil USP reference standard, intended for use in specified quality tests and assays as specified in the USP compendia. Also, for use with USP monographs such as:
  • Cefuroxime Axetil for Oral Suspension
  • Cefuroxime Axetil Tablets

Analysis Note

These products are for test and assay use only. They are not meant for administration to humans or animals and cannot be used to diagnose, treat, or cure diseases of any kind.  ​

Other Notes

Sales restrictions may apply.

Pictograms

Health hazard

Signal Word

Danger

Hazard Statements

Hazard Classifications

Resp. Sens. 1 - Skin Sens. 1

Storage Class Code

11 - Combustible Solids

WGK

WGK 2

Flash Point(F)

Not applicable

Flash Point(C)

Not applicable


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Sruti Jammula et al.
Drug delivery, 22(1), 125-135 (2014-01-15)
Biphasic floating minitablets of cefuroxime axetil were prepared by melt granulation technique using two different grades of gelucire namely 50/13 and 43/01 to maintain constant plasma drug concentration. Loading dose of cefuroxime axetil was formulated as immediate release (IR) minitablets
Cefuroxime axetil: a new oral cephalosporin.
Drug and therapeutics bulletin, 27(2), 5-7 (1989-01-23)
M Słowińska et al.
Polski merkuriusz lekarski : organ Polskiego Towarzystwa Lekarskiego, 9(53), 785-790 (2001-02-24)
This study summarizes the actual recommendations for cefuroxime axetil treatment in dermatology and general medicine. These include the well known clinical efficacies in therapy of upper and lower respiratory tract infections, genitourinary tract infections and skin and soft tissue infections
[Cefuroxime axetil].
F Matsumoto et al.
The Japanese journal of antibiotics, 41(9), 1181-1193 (1988-09-01)
C M Perry et al.
Drugs, 52(1), 125-158 (1996-07-01)
Cefuroxime axetil is an oral cephalosporin which is rapidly hydrolysed to the active parent compound, cefuroxime. Cefuroxime has a broad spectrum of in vitro antibacterial activity which encompasses methicillin-sensitive staphylococci and the common respiratory pathogens Streptococcus pneumoniae, Haemophilus influenzae, Moraxella

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