Montelukast 1 is a famous drug demonstrated for the chronic and prophylaxis therapy of asthma. It behaves as a selective antagonist of the leukotriene D4 receptor which causes the decrease of broncho constriction and eventuates in less inflammation. Montelukast is prescribed orally once daily which gives a profit in contrast with other drugs for pulmonary diseases such as asthma. The low stability and complex synthesis of Montelukast 1 present multitude difficulties for its large-scale production. Our present study demonstrates a novel and the industrially scalable process for the preparation of sodium (S,E)-2-(1-(((1-(3-(2-(7-chloroquinolin-2-yl)vinyl)phenyl)-3-(2-(methoxycarbonyl)phenyl)propyl)thio)methyl)cyclopropyl)acetate which is one of the key intermediates of the Montelukast sodium synthesis process. We demonstrated a novel process that resolves multitude prior limitations and problems. Our modified process (see in scheme 2), which details are shown in this paper, is appropriate for large-scale production of the active pharmaceutical ingredient (API) with many benefits generally known as Montelukast.
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Development of an efficient and practical approach for the synthesis of intermediate of Montelukast Sodium
Published:
01 November 2016
by MDPI
in The 20th International Electronic Conference on Synthetic Organic Chemistry
session Bioorganic, Medicinal and Natural Products Chemistry
Abstract:
Keywords: Montelukast sodium; Singulair; asthma; drug synthesis; chronic therapy