David Pranay Dave

Katie Grace Cooper

Lucinda Victoria Jackson

Phillip Anthony Inglesby

Mark Andrew Graham

Gary Michael Noonan

The present disclosure concerns the large-scale manufacture of pharmaceutical compounds, and novel intermediates for use in the manufacture. International Patent Application WO2011154737 discloses morpholine pyrimidines useful for treating cancer, processes for their preparation and pharmaceutical compositions thereof. In particular, WO2011154737 discloses, as experimental Example 2.02 on page 60, the compound 4-{4-[(3R)-3-methylmorpholin-4-yl]-6-[1-((R)—S-methylsulfonimidoyl)cyclopropyl]pyrimidin-2-yl}-1H-pyrrolo[2,3-b]pyridine (hereafter referred to as the compound of Formula (I)). The structure of the compound of Formula (I) is shown below. A synthetic route to the compound of Formula (I) is described at pages 51 to 57, 66 and 67 of WO2011154737, and is summarised below in Scheme 1.

Pharmaceutical process for the preparation of 4-{4-[(3R)-3-methylmorpholin-4-yl]-6-[1-((R)-S-methylsulfonimidoyl) cyclopropyl]pyrimidin-2-yl}-1H-pyrrolo[2,3-b] pyridine and intermediates

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