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Abstract
In this article, a robust and scalable process to prepare the key intermediate 7-(benzyloxy)-3,4,12,12a-tetrahydro-1H-[1,4]oxazino[3,4-c]pyrido[2,1-f][1,2,4]triazine-6,8-dione (1) for the synthesis of the influenza antiviral drug baloxavir marboxil is described. The process is based on a novel preparation of 2-(2,2-dimethoxyethoxy)ethanamine 5 employing inexpensive and readily available ethylene glycol as the starting material with more convenient manipulation and fewer environmental hazards compared with the original routes starting with ethanolamine or its derivatives. Large-scale applicability of this new route has been successfully demonstrated on kilogram-scale production to afford 700 grams of 1 with 99.3% purity in 31% yield over six steps. With such satisfactory quality, baloxavir marboxil is eventually furnished with excellent purity (>99.5%, single impurity < 0.1%). Meanwhile, the corresponding impurity profile is studied in detail.
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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.