Ying Chen, John L. Tucker, Neill Penner, Keegan Start, Bradley Scott, Jean-Francois Vincent-Rocan, Brian M. Cochran
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Abstract
A practical fluoride
scavenging strategy was developed to enable
the execution of a fluoride-generating SNAr reaction in
a glass-lined reactor during the manufacture of NBI-921352. The DABCO-mediated
substitution of an activated aryl fluoride with a secondary amine
generates hydrogen fluoride, presenting a risk of glass etching during
scale-up. Glass coupon studies confirmed measurable mass loss under
both the standard and stressed reaction conditions. Screening of calcium
salts identified calcium chloride as a soluble and reaction-compatible
fluoride scavenger that preserved the reaction performance while preventing
reactor damage. After optimization of downstream workup associated
with calcium fluoride formation, the process was successfully implemented
in a 4000 L glass-lined reactor under cGMP conditions, enabling the
production of greater than 60 kg of the NBI-921352 intermediate without
detectable glass etching.
期刊介绍:
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.