Léna Brassart, Antoine Coeuillas, Maxime Manneveau, Thomas Poisson, Julien Legros, Philippe Huez, Massimiliano Forcato, Philippe Jubault, Laëtitia Chausset-Boissarie
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Abstract
A continuous-flow
process was developed for the regioselective
functionalization of 2-cyano-3-fluoropyridine using Corning advanced-flow
reactors. The flow setup enabled the controlled generation of a pyridyllithium
intermediate through deprotonation with lithium diisopropylamide (LDA)
under noncryogenic conditions (−20 °C) with a short residence
time of 6 s. Subsequent in-line trapping with electrophiles afforded
the corresponding highly functionalized pyridine derivatives in high
yields and excellent selectivity. The optimized process was seamlessly
scaled up using a Corning advanced-flow reactor G1, maintaining high
selectivity while achieving a throughput of 83 g.h–1.
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The journal Organic Process Research & Development serves as a communication tool between industrial chemists and chemists working in universities and research institutes. As such, it reports original work from the broad field of industrial process chemistry but also presents academic results that are relevant, or potentially relevant, to industrial applications. Process chemistry is the science that enables the safe, environmentally benign and ultimately economical manufacturing of organic compounds that are required in larger amounts to help address the needs of society. Consequently, the Journal encompasses every aspect of organic chemistry, including all aspects of catalysis, synthetic methodology development and synthetic strategy exploration, but also includes aspects from analytical and solid-state chemistry and chemical engineering, such as work-up tools,process safety, or flow-chemistry. The goal of development and optimization of chemical reactions and processes is their transfer to a larger scale; original work describing such studies and the actual implementation on scale is highly relevant to the journal. However, studies on new developments from either industry, research institutes or academia that have not yet been demonstrated on scale, but where an industrial utility can be expected and where the study has addressed important prerequisites for a scale-up and has given confidence into the reliability and practicality of the chemistry, also serve the mission of OPR&D as a communication tool between the different contributors to the field.