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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 31, 2017
Filed:
Jan. 27, 2014
Sphaera Pharma Pvt. Ltd., IMT Manesar, IN;
Sundeep Dugar, IMT Manesar, IN;
Dinesh Mahajan, IMT Manesar, IN;
Kumar Santosh Rai, IMT Manesar, IN;
Vinayak Tripathi, IMT Manesar, IN;
Ishwar Rakesh Patil, IMT Manesar, IN;
Sphaera Pharma Pvt. Ltd., Haryana, IN;
Abstract
A process for synthesis of enatiomerically pure or enatiomerically enriched or racemic mixture of (+ and/or −) epicatechin and its intermediates, comprising the steps of: (i) obtaining penta-protected quercetin; (ii) reducing the penta-protected quercetin obtained from step (i); (iii) optionally deprotecting the compound of step (ii); (iv) reducing the compound obtained from step (ii) or step (iii) in the presence of a chiral/achiral reducing agent to obtain a chiral intermediate; (v) deprotecting and/or hydrogenation of the chiral intermediate obtained from step (iv) to obtain (−)-epicatechin; (vi) optionally simultaneously deprotecting and by drogenation of the compound obtained from step (ii) to obtain racemic epicatechin.