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Bicyclic
Bicyclic meaning
Having two cycles. | Having two rings of atoms in the molecule; the rings may be fused, as in naphthalene, or separate, as in biphenyl.
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ACV is oxidatively cyclized (two cyclizations by a single enzyme) to bicyclic intermediate isopenicillin N by isopenicillin N synthase (IPNS) to form the penam core structure. citation Various transamidations lead to the different natural penicillins.
As a bicyclic, heterocyclic purine derivative, uric acid does not protonate as an oxygen (−OH) like carboxylic acids do.
By convention, the bicyclic β-lactams are numbered starting with the position occupied by sulfur in the penams and cephems, regardless of which atom it is in a given class.