Abstract:
A method for obtaining an epoxide having high optical purity, characterized in that an optically active epoxide is subjected to a distillation in the presence of a base. The method allows the suppression of the decrease of optical purity due to the exposure to heat during the distillation of an optically active epoxide, and thus can be employed for producing an optically active epoxide of high quality with ease and simplicity on an industrial scale.
Abstract:
An industrially advantageous process for preparing high-purity 3-hydroxytetrahydrofuran easily and simply, which comprises converting a 4-halo-3-hydroxybutyric acid ester into a 4-halo-1,3-butanediol by reducing the ester with a boron hydride compound and/or an aluminum hydride compound in an organic solvent incompatible with water and treating the obtained reaction mixture with an acid and water, recovering an aqueous solution containing the diol, conducting the cyclization of the diol in this aqueous solution, extracting the resulting solution with an organic solvent incompatible with water, and isolating 3-hydroxytetrahydrofuran from the extract through concentration and/or distillation.
Abstract:
A method for crystallizing the maleic acid salt of N-(1(S)-ethoxycarbonyl-3-phenylpropyl)-L-alanyl-L-proline (Enalapril) from an aqueous liquid with ease in good yield, which comprises mixing an aqueous liquid containing N-(1(S)-ethoxycarbonyl-3-phenylpropyl)-L-alanyl-L-proline, maleic acid and a base and having a pH of 4 or more with an acid in an amount of the acid sufficient to convert the base to a neutral salt, to thereby crystallize N-(1(S)-ethoxycarbonyl-3-phenylpropyl)-L-alanyl-L-proline in the form of a maleic acid salt.
Abstract:
A process for preparing N -(1(S)-carboxy-3-phenylpropyl)-L-lysyl-L-proline (2) easily, efficiently and industrially advantageously, which comprises: the first step of conducting the alkaline hydrolysis of an N -(1(S)-alkoxycarbonyl-3-phenylpropyl)-N -trifluoroacetyl-L-lysyl-L-proline (1) by the use of n molar equivalents (wherein n >/= 3) of an inorganic base per mol of the compound (1) either in a mixture of water with a hydrophilic organic solvent or in water; the second step of neutralizing the resulting reaction mixture with (n-1) to n molar equivalents (wherein n >/= 3) of an inorganic acid, replacing the solvent system by a suitable one to thereby precipitate an inorganic salt formed by the above neutralization, and separating and removing the salt; and the third step of crystallizing the compound (2) present in the liquid mixture left after the above removal of the salt at its isoelectric point and recovering the compound (2) as a crystal, while salts mainly comprising organic acid salts resulting from trifluoroacetic acid remain dissolved in the mother liquor.
Abstract:
A process for preparing pharmacologically acceptable salts of N-(1(S)-ethoxycarbonyl-3-phenylpropyl)-L-alanyl amino acids, comprising the steps of: condensing an amino acid with N-(1(S)-ethoxycarbonyl-3-phenylpropyl)-L-alanine N-carboxyanhydride under basic conditions; decarboxylating the condensate under neutral to acidic conditions to prepare an N-(1(S)-ethoxycarbonyl-3-phenylpropyl)-L-alanyl amino acid; and converting the product to a pharmacologically acceptable salt thereof, characterized in that a series of procedures up to the formation of a pharmacologically acceptable salt or up to the withdrawal of the pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof are carried out in an aqueous liquid to inhibit the production of a by-product (3). According to this process, high-quality pharmacologically acceptable salts of N-(1(S)-ethoxycarbonyl-3-phenylpropyl)-L-alanyl amino acids can be prepared in high yields in a cost-effective manner on a commercial scale.