American Home Products Corporation

American Home Products Corporation (del.)

James S Farina

Paul C Guley

Corbin L Cummings

There is described a process for the preparation of high yields of propranolol hydrochloride having a particle size within the range of 420 to 1200 microns wherein the propanolol hydrochloride is recrystallized from, as a solvent, a mixture of n-propanol and heptane. The propranolol hydrochloride macrocrystals are useful themselves in capsule pharmaceutical dosage forms and when coated with a sustained release coating composition, are useful in the manufacture of sustained action capsule and tablet pharmaceutical dosage.

Preparation of propranolol hydrochloride macrocrystals

A process is provided for preparing 3-hydroxy-3-phenyl-butan-2-one, useful in the preparation of acifran, in high yields by reacting 2,3-butanedione with the appropriate Grignard reagent at low temperature in tetrahydrofuran or admixtures thereof with toluene.

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Rouses Point, NY, United States of America

James S Farina