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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 21, 1995
Filed:
Jan. 29, 1993
Applicant:
Inventors:
Ulf H Dolling, Westfield, NJ (US);
James A McCauley, Belle Mead, NJ (US);
Richard J Varsolona, Scotch Plains, NJ (US);
Assignee:
Merck & Co., Inc., Rahway, NJ (US);
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
C07D / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
546 77 ;
Abstract
Disclosed is a new process for producing finasteride which involves reacting the magnesium halide salt of 17.beta.B-carboalkoxy-4-aza-5.alpha.-androst-1-en-3-one with t-butylamino magnesium halide, present in at least a 2:1 molar ratio to the ester, formed from t-butyl amine and an aliphatic/aryl magnesium halide at ambient temperature in an inert organic solvent under an inert atmosphere followed by heating and recovering said product finasteride. Also disclosed are two polymorphic crystalline Forms I and II of finasteride, and methods of their production.