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Istituto Nazionale Per Lo Studio E La Cura Dei Tumori

Domenico Vergani

Maria Ornella Tinti

Sergio Penco

Giorgio Bertolini

Walter Cabri

Marco Alpegiani

Claudio Pisano

Paolo Carminati

Mauro Marzi

Loredana Vesci

Franco Zunino

Giuseppe Motta

Fabrizio Giorgi

Paolo Ghetti

Maurizio Gallina

Patrizia Castoldi

Elena Marastoni

Alberto Bologna

Tamara Danelli

Nicola Landoni

Barbara Verzola

Martin Gomez Patricio

A process for preparing fexofenadine is described, which provides for the hydrolysis of 4-[4-[4-(hydroxydiphenylmethyl)-1-piperidyl]-1-oxobutyl]-&#x3b1;,&#x3b1;-dimethylbenzeneacetic acid-alkyl ester, in a mixture of water and optionally an organic solvent, in the presence of a base; the carboxylate salt of 4-[4-[4-(hydroxydiphenylmethyl)-1-piperidyl]-1-oxobutyl]-&#x3b1;,&#x3b1;-dimethylbenzeneacetic acid is thus obtained, which is then directly reduced as carboxylate in a basic environment with hydrogen in the presence of a suitable hydrogenation catalyst to give the carboxylate of fexofenadine, which is precipitated by neutralization of the solution.

Process for preparing fexofenadine

A novel process for the synthesis of Lacosamide using D,L-serine as starting material is described, where the methylation reaction of hydroxyl is carried out using an inexpensive base such as NaOH and an inexpensive alkylating agent, non-toxic and non-carcinogenic, such as methyl p-toluenesulfonate; the R enantiomer is isolated from the racemic mixture of Lacosamide after selective hydrolysis of the acetamide, salification of the racemic mixture with a chiral acid (HX*) in an organic solvent, resolution of the diastereoisomeric mixture, preferably by precipitation of the R enantiomer, and subsequent acetylation of the optically pure intermediate.

Process for the preparation of lacosamide

The object of the present invention is a new process for the synthesis of tapentadol, both as free base and in hydrochloride form, which comprises the step of alkylation of the ketone (VII) to yield the compound (VIII), as reported in Diagram 1, with high stereoselectivity due to the presence of the benzyl group as substituent of the amino group. It was surprisingly found that this substitution shifts the keto-enol equilibrium towards the desired enantiomer and amplifies the capacity of the stereocenter present in the compound (VII) to orient the nucleophilic addition of the organometallic compound at the carbonyl towards the desired stereoisomer. This substitution thus allows obtaining a considerable increase of the yields in this step, and consequently allows significantly increasing the overall yield of the entire tapentadol synthesis process. A further object of the present invention is constituted by the tapentadol free base in solid form, obtainable by means of the process of the invention. Still another object of the invention is represented by the crystalline forms I and II of the tapentadol free base. A further object of the present invention is the mixture of the crystalline forms I and II of the tapentadol free base. 

Process for the synthesis of tapentadol and intermediates thereof

The present invention refers to a new process for the synthesis of tapentadol comprising the quantitative resolution of the racemic mixture (V) to obtain the stereoisomer of (S)-3-(dimethylamino)-2-methyl-1-(3-nitrophenyl)-propan-1-one (VII) according to the Scheme 2 below using the (2R,3R)&#x2014;O,O'-dibenzoyltartaric chiral acid wherein said resolution is quantitative. The present invention also refers to some intermediate compounds of the new synthesis process of tapentadol.

Process for the preparation of tapentadol and intermediates thereof

The present invention relates to a process for the synthesis of aryloxypropylamine and heteroaryloxypropylamine of formula I: where: A is aryl or heteroaryl, where the aryl is preferably a phenyl, optionally substituted, selected from benzyl and tolyl and the heteroaryl is preferably thiophenyl; Y is an aryl, preferably phenyl, a substituted phenyl or a naphthyl, where the substituted phenyl is preferably selected from tolyl, trihalomethyltolyl and alkoxytolyl, starting from a suitable amino alcohol of formula II: 

Process for the synthesis of aryloxypropylamine and heteroaryloxypropylamine

A stereoselective process for preparing 7-[(E)-t-butyloxyiminomethyl]-camptothecin (also known as gimatecan) is herein disclosed. With the addition of further dissolution and precipitation steps carried out in appropriate different solvent mixtures, four new crystalline forms of gimatecan are also obtainable by using the same stereoselective process.

Stereoselective process and crystalline forms of a camptothecin

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