Douglas J. Critcher*, Christopher Paul Ashcroft*, Alan J. Pettman, Matthew Badland, Robert Szpera and William Waddington,
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Abstract
Our route scouting efforts toward finding the most efficient construction of PF-07265807 (ARRY-067) in readiness for process development prior to commercial manufacture are described. ARRY-067 contains the azaindazole (1H-pyrazolo [3,4-b]pyridine) building block that is common to many pharmaceuticals and bioactive agents. Herein, our novel approach to this challenging structural motif is described where an oxazoline ring-opening cyclization cascade triggered by the addition of hydrazine reveals the target 3-alaninol-substituted azaindazole in one step. An improved synthesis of the uracil carboxylic acid coupling partner is also described. Overall, the new route is six steps shorter than the enabling route, minimizes protecting group manipulations, and avoids the use of transition metal catalysis.
期刊介绍:
The journal Organic Process Research & Development serves as a communication tool between industrial chemists and chemists working in universities and research institutes. As such, it reports original work from the broad field of industrial process chemistry but also presents academic results that are relevant, or potentially relevant, to industrial applications. Process chemistry is the science that enables the safe, environmentally benign and ultimately economical manufacturing of organic compounds that are required in larger amounts to help address the needs of society. Consequently, the Journal encompasses every aspect of organic chemistry, including all aspects of catalysis, synthetic methodology development and synthetic strategy exploration, but also includes aspects from analytical and solid-state chemistry and chemical engineering, such as work-up tools,process safety, or flow-chemistry. The goal of development and optimization of chemical reactions and processes is their transfer to a larger scale; original work describing such studies and the actual implementation on scale is highly relevant to the journal. However, studies on new developments from either industry, research institutes or academia that have not yet been demonstrated on scale, but where an industrial utility can be expected and where the study has addressed important prerequisites for a scale-up and has given confidence into the reliability and practicality of the chemistry, also serve the mission of OPR&D as a communication tool between the different contributors to the field.