Notes hydrazine-HC1, 250 mg of NaOAc, and 1.0 ml of AcOH and refluxed for 40 min. The mixt was poured over a large amount of ice water and the ppt formed w'as collected by filtration. Recrystn from MeOH yielded 900 mg of 6, mp 154-157°.Receptor Binding Studies.^-Uteri from 10 immature rabbits weighing less than 2 kg were removed, minced, and washed several times with buffer to rid the tissue of blood. Uteri were then homogenized in 0.4 vol of buffer (0.01 M Tris-HCl buffer, pH 8.0, contg 0.001 M EDTA and 0.25 M sucrose) at 4°. The homogenates were first centrifuged at 12,000¡? for 30 min, followed by 273,000;? for 1.0 hr. Reaction mixts consisting of (a) 0.2 ml of buffer (0.01 M Tris-HCl, pH 8.0, contg 0.001 M EDTA, 0.25 M sucrose, and 25,000 cpm of progesterone-i/ml), (b) nonradioactive compds reported in this paper at a concn of 100 ng/ml, and (c) 50 µ of uterine cytosol were incubated at 4°for 16 hr. After incubation bound vs. unbound steroids were sepd as earlier reported, and the amt of bound progesterone-f was determined.Acknowledgment.-We wish to thank Dr. I. Scheer and Dr. J. DaVanzo for their encouragement and interest. Thanks are also due to Mrs. E. Kaffitz, Miss C. DeDella, and Mrs. B. Fuller for their technical assistance./3-Lactam Antimicrobial Agents Which Possess Antifungal Activity in the presence of I2 and Nal (method ) 1 2 jV-Benyzlthiocarbamoylmereaptoacetamidocephalosporanic acid (I) ( 14) was prepared from sodium 7-(2-bromoacetamido)cephalosporanate3 4and potassium Ar-benzyldithiocarbamate. Potassium 6-[( -)-a-phenoxypropionamidojthiopenicillanate (II) (15)4 and 6-phenoxyacetamidopenicillanal (III) (16)5 were prepared by published procedures.Antifungal Activity.-Results of the tests are summarized in Table I. As can be seen, the most active compound is sodium (Ar-benzvldithiocarbamoylacetamido)cephalosporanate (I) (Table I, 14). It is noteworthy that this cephalosporin showed two-to fourfold greater antifungal activity than the antifungal acid 176 from which it was derived. It is also of interest that the penicillin aldehyde III (16) which is virtually without activity in vitro aganist bacteria, showed antifungal effects. Compound 14 was tested in an experimental systemic Cryptococcus neoformans infection of mice but was found to case no prolongation of survival time. Thus, the probability exists that, although these compounds are active in vitro, they are not present in an active form in animal tissues at high enough concentrations to give protection against systemic fungal infections.