{"title":"Efficient Production of Inhalable Micro-Nanoparticles: Mechanism, Process Optimization, and Modular Continuous Micro-Crystallizer Design","authors":"Yuan Wang, Ding-Jun Chu, Jin-Liang Li, Xiao-Qiang Xie, Guo-Bin Ren, Ming-Hui Qi","doi":"10.1021/acs.oprd.5c00011","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.oprd.5c00011","url":null,"abstract":"Batch production of micro-nanoparticles suffers from high energy consumption and low efficiency, and continuous crystallization is considered a promising solution. This study reported the design of a modular continuous coaxial mixing crystallizer (CCMC) system for the production of micro-nanoparticles of the pharmaceutical compound fluticasone propionate (FP), and the performance of the system was evaluated. Guided by experimentally determined thermodynamic and kinetic data of FP crystallization, computational fluid dynamics simulations were employed to optimize the crystallizer design, resulting in enhanced mixing efficiency occurring within 40 ms. Through a three-stage experimental protocol, the continuous crystallization process was optimized: (1) key process parameters were screened using factorial design; (2) the operational design space was mapped via response surface methodology; and (3) particle size control mechanisms were elucidated through analysis of mixing processes. Quantitative analysis identified the antisolvent-to-solution ratio as the dominant factor governing particle size distribution, attributed to its critical role in nucleation kinetics. The CCMC platform demonstrated robust and efficient operation for 25 min, delivering a single-run output equivalent to 990 doses of commercial formulation. Comparative studies revealed advantages over batch processing, including comparable powder crystallinity, improved crystal morphology, and narrower size distributions within a micro-nanometer range. The coaxial mixing crystallizer system exhibits excellence in flexibility, productivity, and material recovery.","PeriodicalId":55,"journal":{"name":"Organic Process Research & Development","volume":"309 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.4,"publicationDate":"2025-04-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143862642","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"化学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Márk Molnár, Tamás Fődi, János Tatai, Vilibald Kun, Barbara Balázs, Tamás Gáti, Gergő Dargó, Miklós Nyerges
{"title":"Continuous Flow for the Photochemical Synthesis of 3-Substituted Quinolines","authors":"Márk Molnár, Tamás Fődi, János Tatai, Vilibald Kun, Barbara Balázs, Tamás Gáti, Gergő Dargó, Miklós Nyerges","doi":"10.1021/acs.oprd.4c00534","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.oprd.4c00534","url":null,"abstract":"3-Cyano-quinolines are valuable building blocks in medicinal chemistry; however, their limited synthetic accessibility constrains their use. A new continuous-flow strategy was developed to safely obtain 3-cyanoquinolines from 2-(azidomethyl)-3-(aryl)prop-2-enenitriles within minutes. The versatility of our method was demonstrated by using a set of aromatic aldehydes as a starting material leading to previously unexplored quinolines with satisfactory yields.","PeriodicalId":55,"journal":{"name":"Organic Process Research & Development","volume":"219 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.4,"publicationDate":"2025-04-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143858184","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"化学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Rubén Cruz-Sánchez, Antonio Peñas-Sanjuán*, José J. Chica-Armenteros, M. Luz Godino-Salido, Celeste García-Gallarín and Manuel Melguizo*,
{"title":"Soft and Sustainable Synthesis of Perylene Diimides through Soluble Surrogates of Perylenetetracarboxylic Acid Dianhydride","authors":"Rubén Cruz-Sánchez, Antonio Peñas-Sanjuán*, José J. Chica-Armenteros, M. Luz Godino-Salido, Celeste García-Gallarín and Manuel Melguizo*, ","doi":"10.1021/acs.oprd.5c0006310.1021/acs.oprd.5c00063","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.oprd.5c00063https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.oprd.5c00063","url":null,"abstract":"<p >An unprecedented strategy for the efficient and direct synthesis of perylene-3,4,9,10-tetracarboxylic diimides (PDIs) through a well-defined and controlled reaction mechanism has been developed. The procedure is based on the opening of the anhydride groups of perylene-3,4,9,10-tetracarboxylic dianhydride (PDA) as nonplanar diester-type perylene-3,4,9,10-tetracarboxylic acid (MESAC), which act as highly soluble surrogates of PDA that enable the preparation of PDIs under soft conditions compatible with thermolabile groups. A ready interconversion, in amine methanolic solution, between the cyclic anhydride groups of PDA and the groupings resulting from their methanolysis (methyl esters+ammonium carboxylate) and aminolysis (amide+ammonium carboxylate) was studied, and the presence of postulated (nonisolated) intermediates was detected by UV–vis and HPLC/HRMS. The intermediates originated by double aminolysis with primary amines of both anhydride groups of PDA render diamide-type perylene-3,4,9,10-tetracarboxylic acid (s-AMAC) intermediates whose selective cyclization to yield PDIs required basic media, while acidic media produce reversion to the anhydride (PDA). The procedure emerging from these studies provides a robust methodology with a wide scope for the synthesis of PDIs under soft and environmentally friendly conditions.</p>","PeriodicalId":55,"journal":{"name":"Organic Process Research & Development","volume":"29 5","pages":"1299–1310 1299–1310"},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2025-04-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144067819","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"化学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Rubén Cruz-Sánchez, Antonio Peñas-Sanjuán, José J. Chica-Armenteros, M. Luz Godino-Salido, Celeste García-Gallarín, Manuel Melguizo
{"title":"Soft and Sustainable Synthesis of Perylene Diimides through Soluble Surrogates of Perylenetetracarboxylic Acid Dianhydride","authors":"Rubén Cruz-Sánchez, Antonio Peñas-Sanjuán, José J. Chica-Armenteros, M. Luz Godino-Salido, Celeste García-Gallarín, Manuel Melguizo","doi":"10.1021/acs.oprd.5c00063","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.oprd.5c00063","url":null,"abstract":"An unprecedented strategy for the efficient and direct synthesis of perylene-3,4,9,10-tetracarboxylic diimides (PDIs) through a well-defined and controlled reaction mechanism has been developed. The procedure is based on the opening of the anhydride groups of perylene-3,4,9,10-tetracarboxylic dianhydride (PDA) as nonplanar diester-type perylene-3,4,9,10-tetracarboxylic acid (MESAC), which act as highly soluble surrogates of PDA that enable the preparation of PDIs under soft conditions compatible with thermolabile groups. A ready interconversion, in amine methanolic solution, between the cyclic anhydride groups of PDA and the groupings resulting from their methanolysis (methyl esters+ammonium carboxylate) and aminolysis (amide+ammonium carboxylate) was studied, and the presence of postulated (nonisolated) intermediates was detected by UV–vis and HPLC/HRMS. The intermediates originated by double aminolysis with primary amines of both anhydride groups of PDA render diamide-type perylene-3,4,9,10-tetracarboxylic acid (s-AMAC) intermediates whose selective cyclization to yield PDIs required basic media, while acidic media produce reversion to the anhydride (PDA). The procedure emerging from these studies provides a robust methodology with a wide scope for the synthesis of PDIs under soft and environmentally friendly conditions.","PeriodicalId":55,"journal":{"name":"Organic Process Research & Development","volume":"37 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.4,"publicationDate":"2025-04-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143858120","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"化学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Jaber Yousefi Seyf, Fatemeh Zarei, Amir Jalalinejad
{"title":"Valorization of Pharmaceutical Waste by Recovery of Active Pharmaceutical Ingredients from Expired or Unused Finished Pharmaceutical Products with Thermodynamic Modeling","authors":"Jaber Yousefi Seyf, Fatemeh Zarei, Amir Jalalinejad","doi":"10.1021/acs.oprd.5c00093","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.oprd.5c00093","url":null,"abstract":"This study aims to investigate the possibility of recovering active pharmaceutical ingredients (APIs) from expired or unused finished pharmaceutical products (FPPs). Five pharmaceuticals, including ibuprofen, acetaminophen, lamotrigine, phenobarbital, and carbamazepine, were chosen as FPP models. At the beginning of the study, thermodynamic modeling of pharmaceutical solubility was done by the NRTL-SAC and UNIFAC-DMD activity coefficient models in order to screen the 62 approved solvents as determined by the Food and Drug Administration. These models reduce the time and cost associated with the experimental tries. Solid–liquid extraction, filtration, and crystallization are the three main unit operations that are used to purify pharmaceuticals. Results showed that the efficiency of the active pharmaceutical ingredient recovery is between 47 and 81%, mainly above 50%. Also, the purity of the recovered APIs, as the most important factor, was analyzed using melting point FT-IR, UV, high-performance liquid chromatography, and <sup>1</sup>H NMR techniques. Results show that the purity obtained for most recovered APIs is near 100%. So, the purified APIs can be reused in formulation by finished product companies or as starting material in synthesizing derivatives in organic chemistry to obtain new molecules. The present research met the green chemistry criteria and shows significant importance from environmental and economic points of view.","PeriodicalId":55,"journal":{"name":"Organic Process Research & Development","volume":"71 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.4,"publicationDate":"2025-04-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143862653","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"化学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Márk Molnár, Tamás Fődi, János Tatai, Vilibald Kun, Barbara Balázs, Tamás Gáti, Gergő Dargó and Miklós Nyerges*,
{"title":"Continuous Flow for the Photochemical Synthesis of 3-Substituted Quinolines","authors":"Márk Molnár, Tamás Fődi, János Tatai, Vilibald Kun, Barbara Balázs, Tamás Gáti, Gergő Dargó and Miklós Nyerges*, ","doi":"10.1021/acs.oprd.4c0053410.1021/acs.oprd.4c00534","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.oprd.4c00534https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.oprd.4c00534","url":null,"abstract":"<p >3-Cyano-quinolines are valuable building blocks in medicinal chemistry; however, their limited synthetic accessibility constrains their use. A new continuous-flow strategy was developed to safely obtain 3-cyanoquinolines from 2-(azidomethyl)-3-(aryl)prop-2-enenitriles within minutes. The versatility of our method was demonstrated by using a set of aromatic aldehydes as a starting material leading to previously unexplored quinolines with satisfactory yields.</p>","PeriodicalId":55,"journal":{"name":"Organic Process Research & Development","volume":"29 5","pages":"1237–1247 1237–1247"},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2025-04-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144067822","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"化学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Jaber Yousefi Seyf*, Fatemeh Zarei and Amir Jalalinejad,
{"title":"Valorization of Pharmaceutical Waste by Recovery of Active Pharmaceutical Ingredients from Expired or Unused Finished Pharmaceutical Products with Thermodynamic Modeling","authors":"Jaber Yousefi Seyf*, Fatemeh Zarei and Amir Jalalinejad, ","doi":"10.1021/acs.oprd.5c0009310.1021/acs.oprd.5c00093","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.oprd.5c00093https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.oprd.5c00093","url":null,"abstract":"<p >This study aims to investigate the possibility of recovering active pharmaceutical ingredients (APIs) from expired or unused finished pharmaceutical products (FPPs). Five pharmaceuticals, including ibuprofen, acetaminophen, lamotrigine, phenobarbital, and carbamazepine, were chosen as FPP models. At the beginning of the study, thermodynamic modeling of pharmaceutical solubility was done by the NRTL-SAC and UNIFAC-DMD activity coefficient models in order to screen the 62 approved solvents as determined by the Food and Drug Administration. These models reduce the time and cost associated with the experimental tries. Solid–liquid extraction, filtration, and crystallization are the three main unit operations that are used to purify pharmaceuticals. Results showed that the efficiency of the active pharmaceutical ingredient recovery is between 47 and 81%, mainly above 50%. Also, the purity of the recovered APIs, as the most important factor, was analyzed using melting point FT-IR, UV, high-performance liquid chromatography, and <sup>1</sup>H NMR techniques. Results show that the purity obtained for most recovered APIs is near 100%. So, the purified APIs can be reused in formulation by finished product companies or as starting material in synthesizing derivatives in organic chemistry to obtain new molecules. The present research met the green chemistry criteria and shows significant importance from environmental and economic points of view.</p>","PeriodicalId":55,"journal":{"name":"Organic Process Research & Development","volume":"29 5","pages":"1333–1344 1333–1344"},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2025-04-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144067818","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"化学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Saikat Sen, Vishnuvardhan Reddy Eda, Magesh Sampath, Karthik Pulluri, Shirshendu Das Gupta, Rajeev Rehani Budhdev, Rakeshwar Bandichhor, Srinivas Oruganti
{"title":"Enantioselective Synthesis of Savolitinib: Application of Mosher’s Method in the Development of Ellman’s Auxiliary-Directed Construction of the Key Chiral Amine Fragment","authors":"Saikat Sen, Vishnuvardhan Reddy Eda, Magesh Sampath, Karthik Pulluri, Shirshendu Das Gupta, Rajeev Rehani Budhdev, Rakeshwar Bandichhor, Srinivas Oruganti","doi":"10.1021/acs.oprd.4c00446","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.oprd.4c00446","url":null,"abstract":"An efficient rational synthesis of (<i>S</i>)-1-(imidazo[1,2-<i>a</i>]pyridin-6-yl)ethan-1-amine via Ellman’s auxiliary approach and elaboration of this key chiral intermediate into the anticancer drug Savolitinib has been described. An apt combination of Ellman’s sulfinamide and reducing agent afforded high levels of diastereofacial control during hydride addition and secured the desired <i>S</i> configuration in the intermediate, which was unambiguously verified by application of Mosher’s amide method. Our nine-step synthetic sequence to Savolitinib commences with commercially available 6-amino-nicotinic acid and was first demonstrated as a proof-of-concept study on a lab scale. It was then refined during scale-up to allow telescoping of six stages and afford the final API Savolitinib with >99% chiral purity.","PeriodicalId":55,"journal":{"name":"Organic Process Research & Development","volume":"20 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.4,"publicationDate":"2025-04-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143853595","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"化学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Saikat Sen*, Vishnuvardhan Reddy Eda, Magesh Sampath, Karthik Pulluri, Shirshendu Das Gupta, Rajeev Rehani Budhdev, Rakeshwar Bandichhor and Srinivas Oruganti*,
{"title":"Enantioselective Synthesis of Savolitinib: Application of Mosher’s Method in the Development of Ellman’s Auxiliary-Directed Construction of the Key Chiral Amine Fragment","authors":"Saikat Sen*, Vishnuvardhan Reddy Eda, Magesh Sampath, Karthik Pulluri, Shirshendu Das Gupta, Rajeev Rehani Budhdev, Rakeshwar Bandichhor and Srinivas Oruganti*, ","doi":"10.1021/acs.oprd.4c0044610.1021/acs.oprd.4c00446","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.oprd.4c00446https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.oprd.4c00446","url":null,"abstract":"<p >An efficient rational synthesis of (<i>S</i>)-1-(imidazo[1,2-<i>a</i>]pyridin-6-yl)ethan-1-amine via Ellman’s auxiliary approach and elaboration of this key chiral intermediate into the anticancer drug Savolitinib has been described. An apt combination of Ellman’s sulfinamide and reducing agent afforded high levels of diastereofacial control during hydride addition and secured the desired <i>S</i> configuration in the intermediate, which was unambiguously verified by application of Mosher’s amide method. Our nine-step synthetic sequence to Savolitinib commences with commercially available 6-amino-nicotinic acid and was first demonstrated as a proof-of-concept study on a lab scale. It was then refined during scale-up to allow telescoping of six stages and afford the final API Savolitinib with >99% chiral purity.</p>","PeriodicalId":55,"journal":{"name":"Organic Process Research & Development","volume":"29 5","pages":"1218–1227 1218–1227"},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2025-04-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144067779","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"化学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Hongrui Zhang, Feng Xu, Xiang Zhou, Zhiquan Chen, Juncheng Jiang, Gang Fu, Lei Ni
{"title":"Continuous Flow Synthesis and Kinetic Study of Diphenyl Sulfoxide in a Microreactor","authors":"Hongrui Zhang, Feng Xu, Xiang Zhou, Zhiquan Chen, Juncheng Jiang, Gang Fu, Lei Ni","doi":"10.1021/acs.oprd.5c00018","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.oprd.5c00018","url":null,"abstract":"The oxidation of diphenyl sulfide (DPS) by hydrogen peroxide (H<sub>2</sub>O<sub>2</sub>) to synthesize diphenyl sulfoxide (DPSO) is extremely exothermic and has a high thermal risk. When thermal runaway happens, it may lead to equipment damage or even explosions. Therefore, in this work, a microreactor was adopted to reduce reaction thermal risk and process conditions were optimized. Phosphotungstic acid (PTA) was used as the catalyst, and the effects of process conditions, including reaction temperature, residence time, catalyst concentration, and molar ratio on the conversion and yield were systematically investigated. The results showed that the DPSO yield could reach up to 84.3% under the condition of 0.75% catalyst loading, 25 min residence time, 70 °C reaction temperature, and H<sub>2</sub>O<sub>2</sub>–DPS molar ratio of 2. Then, apparent reaction kinetics were studied, and a kinetic model was established and validated. By varying the initial concentrations of H<sub>2</sub>O<sub>2</sub> and DPS, the reaction was determined to be of second-order, with an activation energy of 57.5 kJ·mol<sup>–1</sup> and a pre-exponential factor of 2.96 × 10<sup>7</sup> mol<sup>–1</sup>·L·min<sup>–1</sup>. Furthermore, the temperature distribution along the microreactor was estimated by combining the thermal equilibrium with the reaction kinetics. The results indicated that in a 1/16 in. microreactor, the reaction was nearly isothermal. Temperature distributions were also predicted for microreactors with different diameters and materials. It was demonstrated that the reaction could be safely scaled up to a 3/8 in. microreactor at a reaction temperature of 55 °C, with the maximum temperature rise remaining below 5 °C and no decline in DPSO yield. This study provided a convenient method to guide the safe sizing-up of the reaction in flow reactors.","PeriodicalId":55,"journal":{"name":"Organic Process Research & Development","volume":"74 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.4,"publicationDate":"2025-04-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143836950","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"化学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}