Development and Manufacturing GMP Scale-Up of a Continuous IrCatalyzed Homogeneous Reductive Amination Reaction
Contributor(s):: May, Scott A., Johnson, Martin D., Buser, Jonas Y., Campbell, Alison N., Frank, Scott A., Haeberle, Brian D., Hoffman, Philip C., Lambertus, Gordon R., McFarland, Adam D., Moher, Eric D., White, Timothy D., Hurley, D. Declan, Corrigan, Aoife P., Gowran, Olivia, Kerrigan, Niall G., Kissane, Marie G., Lynch, Regina R., Sheehan, Paul, Spencer, Richard D., Pulley, Shon R., Stout, James R.
The design, development, and scale-up of a continuous iridium-catalyzed homogeneous high pressure reductive amination reaction to produce 6, the penultimate intermediate in Lilly’s CETP inhibitor evacetrapib, is described. The scope of this report involves initial batch chemistry screening at...