Lennie Lin,Anna M. Wagner,Jason Davy,Chloe Y. Wong,Wen-Tau T. Chang,B. Michael O’Keefe,Alexander F. G. Goldberg,Huy Van Huynh,Hongwei Sun,Wei Wang,Scott A. Wolckenhauer
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Abstract
Abstract We describe herein the development and scale-up of the aminoindazole fragment of lenacapavir, a drug recently approved for long-acting treatment of HIV (Sunlenca) and pre-exposure prophylaxis (as Yeztugo and Yeytuo). This five-step route to fragment 1 was developed from the initial “fit-for-purpose” large-scale synthesis to a commercially viable process. Key improvements include an alternative condition to hydroxylamine-O-sulfonic acid-mediated nitrile formation and a significant overhaul of the key Miyaura borylation process. The culmination of all development efforts improved the final product quality and process safety, resulting in a more efficient and higher-yielding process.
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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.