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Simple new way to clean traces of impurities from drug ingredients
Scientists are reporting development of a simple new procedure for removing almost 98 percent of an important impurity that can contaminate prescription drugs and potentially increase the risk for adverse health effects in patients.
Their report appears in ACS’ journal Organic Process Research & Development.
Ecevit Yilmaz and colleagues note that contamination of medications with so-called “genotoxic” impurities (GTIs) have resulted in several major recent drug recalls. GTIs may be ingredients used to make drugs, or they may be formed during production of drugs, and can remain in the final product in minute amounts. The presence of one GTI in the anti-viral medication Viracept distributed in the European Union forced a recall in 2007. With GTIs an ongoing serious concern for the pharmaceutical industry, the scientists sought a better way to remove an important GTI called acrolein.
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Continuous Processing in the Manufacture of Active Pharmaceutical Ingredients and Finished Dosage Forms: An Industry Perspective
Continuous Processing in the Manufacture of Active Pharmaceutical Ingredients and Finished Dosage Forms: An Industry Perspective
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Traditional drug manufacturing is a time-consuming process. Active pharmaceutical ingredients are synthesized in a chemical manufacturing plant and then shipped to another site, where they are converted into giant batches of pills. Including transport time between manufacturing plants, each batch can take weeks or months to produce.
Five years ago, MIT and pharmaceutical company Novartis launched a research effort to transform those procedures. Instead of manufacturing drugs using this conventional batch-based system, they envision a continuous manufacturing process, all done in one location, which would cut down on time and cost.

Researchers at the Novartis-MIT Center for Continuous Manufacturing built this drug-manufacturing prototype in an MIT chemical engineering lab. The system, which consists of six connected units, can transform raw ingredients into finished drug tablets.
Photo: Dominick Reuter
Such a system would allow greater flexibility in supply and could reduce the environmental impact of manufacturing. Continuous manufacturing could also improve quality-assurance testing, says Bernhardt Trout, director of the Novartis-MIT Center for Continuous Manufacturing.
“We see the future of pharmaceutical manufacturing as continuous,” says Trout, who is also a professor of chemical engineering at MIT. “That includes continuous flow together with a systems approach, integration and advanced control.”
Trout and other MIT researchers have now developed and demonstrated a prototype continuous-manufacturing system — the first that can transform raw materials into tablets in a nonstop process. The research team described the new prototype at last October’s annual meeting of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers.
Going with the flow
The original grant supporting the MIT-Novartis Center for Continuous Manufacturing was $40 million over the first five years, with the possibility of renewal for another five years. Researchers at the center, which includes about a dozen MIT faculty members, have been working on different components of the prototype, including reactions between drug precursors, purification, crystallization, tablet formation and monitoring of the overall process.
To demonstrate the system, the researchers built a prototype that produces tablets of a specific drug manufactured by Novartis. However, the system is designed so that components can be swapped in and out to create different drugs.
Key to the continuous system is the development of chemical reactions that can take place as the reactants flow through tubes, as opposed to the huge vats in which most pharmaceutical reactions now take place. Traditional “batch processing” is limited by the difficulty of cooling large vats, but the flow system allows reactions that produce a great deal of heat to be run safely.
For drugs that require multiple steps, new ingredients can be added to the flow at specific points. Also integrated into the system are points where the drug solution is purified. Once the final active product is achieved, it is crystallized into a solid. Any necessary inert ingredients — such as preservatives or flavorings — are added, and the drug is then molded into the traditional tablet shape.

Tablets produced by a prototype drug-manufacturing system built at MIT.
Photo: Dominick Reuter
In the new prototype, all of these steps take place within an enclosure 24 feet long, 8 feet wide and 8 feet tall in an MIT chemical engineering lab. In addition to Trout, MIT faculty members involved in the project include Klavs Jensen, Stephen Buchwald, Tim Jamison, Gregory Rutledge, Allan Myerson, Paul Barton and Richard Braatz.
Several of those researchers — Jensen, Jamison and Myerson — are now also working on an even smaller, tabletop version of the technology, funded by DARPA.
Many benefits
With continuous-flow manufacturing, drug companies could manufacture drugs in small plants scattered around the globe, offering greater supply flexibility. Eliminating the need to transport drug components during the manufacturing process would also cut costs significantly: Estimates for the total cost savings of switching to continuous manufacturing range from 15 to 50 percent.
Another advantage is improved quality control, according to the center’s researchers. “Once you go to continuous, you begin to have continuous monitoring, so it’s much easier to control the quality,” says Jensen, the Warren K. Lewis Professor and head of the Department of Chemical Engineering, who developed much of the flow chemistry for the prototype system.
Continuous manufacturing also allows chemists to explore new ways to make drugs, by using reactions that would require too much heat or dangerous chemicals if performed in a huge vat. “We can use a lot of chemistry in continuous that we couldn’t use in batch,” Trout says.
Novartis recently renewed its grant to MIT for a second five-year term, during which the MIT research teams will work on new ways to form tablets, recycle catalysts and design more complex multistep syntheses, among other projects.
In the meantime, Novartis is setting up a pilot plant at its headquarters in Basel, Switzerland, to create a larger-scale version of the flow technology developed at MIT. It will likely take another four years to begin commercial rollout, and another five to 10 years to convert all of Novartis’ production facilities, says Tom Van Laar, head of global technical operations for Novartis. He expects that many other pharmaceutical companies will head in the same direction.
“It’s kind of like what happened with the first iPad. When it became successful, everybody else started making tablet computers,” Van Laar says. “I think the benefits are so huge, companies are almost going to have to try to do it.”
Selinexor (KPT-330)
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(Z)-3-(3-(3,5-Bis(trifluoromethyl)phenyl)-1H-1,2,4-triazol-1-yl)-N’-(pyrazin-2-yl)acrylohydrazide
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2-Propenoic acid, 3-(3-(3,5-bis(trifluoromethyl)phenyl)-1H-1,2,4-triazol-1-yl)-, 2-(2-pyrazinyl)hydrazide, (2Z)-
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KPT-330
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Selinexor
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Selinexor, a Exportin-1 (CRM1/XPO1) agonist, is in phase II clinical trials at Karyopharm for the treatment of advanced or metastatic gynecological malignancies (cervical, ovarian and uterine carcinomas) and recurrent glioblastomas. The company is also evaluating the compound in early clinical trials for the treatment of advanced solid tumors, hematological cancer (non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma, multiple myeloma and Waldenstrom’s macroglobulinemia), soft tissue or bone sarcoma, relapsed or refractory acute myeloid leukemia (AML) and relapsed or refractory acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL).
In 2014, orphan drug designation was assigned in U.S. for the treatment of acute myeloid leukemia and diffuse large B-cell lymphoma
Cells from most major human solid and hematologic malignancies exhibit abnormal cellular localization of a variety of oncogenic proteins, tumor suppressor proteins, and cell cycle regulators (Cronshaw et al. 2004, Falini et al 2006). For example, certain p53 mutations lead to localization in the cytoplasm rather than in the nucleus. This results in the loss of normal growth regulation, despite intact tumor suppressor function. In other tumors, wild-type p53 is sequestered in the cytoplasm or rapidly degraded, again leading to loss of its suppressor function. Restoration of appropriate nuclear localization of functional p53 protein can normalize some properties of neoplastic cells (Cai et al. 2008; Hoshino et al. 2008; Lain et al. 1999a; Lain et al. 1999b; Smart et al. 1999), can restore sensitivity of cancer cells to DNA damaging agents (Cai et al. 2008), and can lead to regression of established tumors (Sharpless & DePinho 2007, Xue et al. 2007). Similar data have been obtained for other tumor suppressor proteins such as forkhead (Turner and Sullivan 2008) and c-Abl (Vignari and Wang 2001). In addition, abnormal localization of several tumor suppressor and growth regulatory proteins may be involved in the pathogenesis of autoimmune diseases (Davis 2007, Nakahara 2009). CRMl inhibition may provide particularly interesting utility in familial cancer syndromes (e.g. , Li-Fraumeni Syndrome due to loss of one p53 allele,
BRCA1 or 2 cancer syndromes), where specific tumor suppressor proteins (TSP) are deleted or dysfunctional and where increasing TSP levels by systemic (or local) administration of CRMl inhibitors could help restore normal tumor suppressor function. Specific proteins and R As are carried into and out of the nucleus by specialized transport molecules, which are classified as importins if they transport molecules into the nucleus, and exportins if they transport molecules out of the nucleus (Terry et al. 2007;
Sorokin et al. 2007). Proteins that are transported into or out of the nucleus contain nuclear import/localization (NLS) or export (NES) sequences that allow them to interact with the relevant transporters. Chromosomal Region Maintenance 1 (Crml or CRM1), which is also called exportin-1 or Xpol, is a major exportin.
Overexpression of Crml has been reported in several tumors, including human ovarian cancer (Noske et al. 2008), cervical cancer (van der Watt et al. 2009), pancreatic cancer (Huang et al. 2009), hepatocellular carcinoma (Pascale et al. 2005) and osteosarcoma (Yao et al. 2009) and is independently correlated with poor clinical outcomes in these tumor types.
Inhibition of Crml blocks the exodus of tumor suppressor proteins and/or growth regulators such as p53, c-Abl, p21, p27, pRB, BRCA1, IkB, ICp27, E2F4, KLF5, YAP1, ZAP, KLF5, HDAC4, HDAC5 or forkhead proteins (e.g., FOX03a) from the nucleus that are associated with gene expression, cell proliferation, angiogenesis and epigenetics. Crml inhibitors have been shown to induce apoptosis in cancer cells even in the presence of activating oncogenic or growth stimulating signals, while sparing normal (untransformed) cells. Most studies of Crml inhibition have utilized the natural product Crml inhibitor Leptomycin B (LMB). LMB itself is highly toxic to neoplastic cells, but poorly tolerated with marked gastrointestinal toxicity in animals (Roberts et al. 1986) and humans (Newlands et al. 1996). Derivatization of LMB to improve drug-like properties leads to compounds that retain antitumor activity and are better tolerated in animal tumor models (Yang et al. 2007, Yang et al. 2008, Mutka et al. 2009). Therefore, nuclear export inhibitors could have beneficial effects in neoplastic and other proliferative disorders.
In addition to tumor suppressor proteins, Crml also exports several key proteins that are involved in many inflammatory processes. These include IkB, NF-kB, Cox-2, RXRa, Commdl, HIFl, HMGBl, FOXO, FOXP and others. The nuclear factor kappa B (NF-kB/rel) family of transcriptional activators, named for the discovery that it drives immunoglobulin kappa gene expression, regulate the mRNA expression of variety of genes involved in inflammation, proliferation, immunity and cell survival. Under basal conditions, a protein inhibitor of NF-kB, called IkB, binds to NF-kB in the nucleus and the complex IkB-NF-kB renders the NF-kB transcriptional function inactive. In response to inflammatory stimuli, IkB dissociates from the IkB-NF-kB complex, which releases NF-kB and unmasks its potent transcriptional activity. Many signals that activate NF-kB do so by targeting IkB for proteolysis (phosphorylation of IkB renders it “marked” for ubiquitination and then proteolysis). The nuclear IkBa-NF-kB complex can be exported to the cytoplasm by Crml where it dissociates and NF-kB can be reactivated. Ubiquitinated IkB may also dissociate from the NF-kB complex, restoring NF-kB transcriptional activity. Inhibition of Crml induced export in human neutrophils and macrophage like cells (U937) by LMB not only results in accumulation of transcriptionally inactive, nuclear IkBa-NF-kB complex but also prevents the initial activation of NF-kB even upon cell stimulation (Ghosh 2008, Huang 2000). In a different study, treatment with LMB inhibited IL-Ιβ induced NF-kB DNA binding (the first step in NF-kB transcriptional activation), IL-8 expression and intercellular adhesion molecule expression in pulmonary microvascular endothelial cells (Walsh 2008). COMMDl is another nuclear inhibitor of both NF-kB and hypoxia-inducible factor 1 (HIFl) transcriptional activity. Blocking the nuclear export of COMMDl by inhibiting Crml results in increased inhibition of NF-kB and HIFl transcriptional activity (Muller 2009).
Crml also mediates retinoid X receptor a (RXRa) transport. RXRa is highly expressed in the liver and plays a central role in regulating bile acid, cholesterol, fatty acid, steroid and xenobiotic metabolism and homeostasis. During liver inflammation, nuclear RXRa levels are significantly reduced, mainly due to inflammation-mediated nuclear export of RXRa by Crml . LMB is able to prevent IL-Ιβ induced cytoplasmic increase in RXRa levels in human liver derived cells (Zimmerman 2006).
The role of Crml -mediated nuclear export in NF-kB, HIF-1 and RXRa signalling suggests that blocking nuclear export can be potentially beneficial in many inflammatory processes across multiple tissues and organs including the vasculature (vasculitis, arteritis, polymyalgia rheumatic, atherosclerosis), dermatologic (see below), rheumatologic
(rheumatoid and related arthritis, psoriatic arthritis, spondyloarthropathies, crystal arthropathies, systemic lupus erythematosus, mixed connective tissue disease, myositis syndromes, dermatomyositis, inclusion body myositis, undifferentiated connective tissue disease, Sjogren’s syndrome, scleroderma and overlap syndromes, etc.).
CRM1 inhibition affects gene expression by inhibiting/activating a series of transcription factors like ICp27, E2F4, KLF5, YAP1, and ZAP.
Crml inhibition has potential therapeutic effects across many dermatologic syndromes including inflammatory dermatoses (atopy, allergic dermatitis, chemical dermatitis, psoriasis), sun-damage (ultraviolet (UV) damage), and infections. CRMl inhibition, best studied with LMB, showed minimal effects on normal keratinocytes, and exerted anti-inflammatory activity on keratinocytes subjected to UV, TNFa, or other inflammatory stimuli (Kobayashi & Shinkai 2005, Kannan & Jaiswal 2006). Crml inhibition also upregulates NRF2 (nuclear factor erythroid-related factor 2) activity, which protects keratinocytes (Schafer et al. 2010, Kannan & Jaiswal 2006) and other cell types (Wang et al. 2009) from oxidative damage. LMB induces apoptosis in keratinocytes infected with oncogenic human papillomavirus (HPV) strains such as HPV 16, but not in uninfected keratinocytes (Jolly et al. 2009).
Crml also mediates the transport of key neuroprotectant proteins that may be useful in neurodegenerative diseases including Parkinson’s disease (PD), Alzheimer’s disease, and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). For example, by (1) forcing nuclear retention of key neuroprotective regulators such as NRF2 (Wang 2009), FOXA2 (Kittappa et al. 2007), parking in neuronal cells, and/or (2) inhibiting NFKB transcriptional activity by sequestering IKB to the nucleus in glial cells, Crml inhibition could slow or prevent neuronal cell death found in these disorders. There is also evidence linking abnormal glial cell proliferation to abnormalities in CRMl levels or CRMl function (Shen 2008).
Intact nuclear export, primarily mediated through CRMl, is also required for the intact maturation of many viruses. Viruses where nuclear export, and/or CRMl itself, has been implicated in their lifecycle include human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), adenovirus, simian retrovirus type 1, Borna disease virus, influenza (usual strains as well as H1N1 and avian H5N1 strains), hepatitis B (HBV) and C (HCV) viruses, human papillomavirus (HPV), respiratory syncytial virus (RSV), Dungee, Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome coronavirus, yellow fever virus, West Nile virus, herpes simplex virus (HSV), cytomegalovirus (CMV), and Merkel cell polyomavirus (MCV). (Bhuvanakantham 2010, Cohen 2010, Whittaker 1998). It is anticipated that additional viral infections reliant on intact nuclear export will be uncovered in the future.
The HIV-1 Rev protein, which traffics through nucleolus and shuttles between the nucleus and cytoplasm, facilitates export of unspliced and singly spliced HIV transcripts containing Rev Response Elements (RRE) RNA by the CRMl export pathway. Inhibition of Rev-mediated RNA transport using CRMl inhibitors such as LMBor PKF050-638 can arrest the HIV-1 transcriptional process, inhibit the production of new HIV-1 virions, and thereby reduce HIV-1 levels (Pollard 1998, Daelemans 2002). Dengue virus (DENV) is the causative agent of the common arthropod-borne viral disease, Dengue fever (DF), and its more severe and potentially deadly Dengue hemorrhagic fever (DHF). DHF appears to be the result of an over exuberant inflammatory response to DENV. NS5 is the largest and most conserved protein of DENV. CRMl regulates the transport of NS5 from the nucleus to the cytoplasm, where most of the NS5 functions are mediated. Inhibition of CRMl -mediated export of NS5 results in altered kinetics of virus production and reduces induction of the inflammatory chemokine interleukin-8 (IL-8), presenting a new avenue for the treatment of diseases caused by DENV and other medically important flaviviruses including hepatitis C virus (Rawlinson 2009).
Other virus-encoded RNA-binding proteins that use CRMl to exit the nucleus include the HSV type 1 tegument protein (VP 13/14, or hUL47), human CMV protein pp65, the SARS Coronavirus ORF 3b Protein, and the RSV matrix (M) protein (Williams 2008, Sanchez 2007, Freundt 2009, Ghildyal 2009).
Interestingly, many of these viruses are associated with specific types of human cancer including hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) due to chronic HBV or HCV infection, cervical cancer due to HPV, and Merkel cell carcinoma associated with MCV. CRMl inhibitors could therefore have beneficial effects on both the viral infectious process as well as on the process of neoplastic transformation due to these viruses.
CRMl controls the nuclear localization and therefore activity of multiple DNA metabolizing enzymes including histone deacetylases (HDAC), histone acetyltransferases (HAT), and histone methyltransferases (HMT). Suppression of cardiomyocyte hypertrophy with irreversible CRMl inhibitors has been demonstrated and is believed to be linked to nuclear retention (and activation) of HDAC 5, an enzyme known to suppress a hypertrophic genetic program (Monovich et al. 2009). Thus, CRMl inhibition may have beneficial effects in hypertrophic syndromes, including certain forms of congestive heart failure and hypertrophic cardiomyopathies.
CRMl has also been linked to other disorders. Leber’s disorder, a hereditary disorder characterized by degeneration of retinal ganglion cells and visual loss, is associated with inaction of the CRMl switch (Gupta N 2008). There is also evidence linking
neurodegenerative disorders to abnormalities in nuclear transport.
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To date, however, small-molecule, drug-like Crml inhibitors for use in vitro and in vivo are uncommon. SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
The present invention relates to compounds, or pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof, useful as nuclear transport modulators. The invention also provides
pharmaceutically acceptable compositions comprising compounds of the present invention and methods of using said compounds and compositions in the treatment of various disorders, such as those associated with abnormal cellular responses triggered by improper nuclear transport..
In one embodiment of the invention, the compounds are represented by formula I:
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Example 1 : Synthesis of Intermediate (Z)-3-(3-(3,5-bis(trifluoromethyl)phenyl)-lH-l,2,4- triazol-l-yl)acrylic acid.
Synthesis of 3,5-bis(trifluoromethyl)benzothioamid
A 2-L, 3-necked, round-bottomed flask was charged with a solution of 3,5- bis(trifluoromethyl)benzonitrile (200 g) in DMF (1 L). The solution was then treated with NaSH (123.7 g, 2.0 eq.) and MgCl2 (186.7 g, 1.0 eq.) and the reaction mixture was stirred at RT for 3 hours. The mixture was poured into an ice-water slurry (10 L) and the compound was extracted with EtOAc (3 x 1 L). The combined organic layers were washed with aqueous saturated brine (3 x 100 mL), dried over anhydrous Na2S04, filtered, and concentrated under reduced pressure to afford 205 g of desired crude 3,5- bis(trifluoromethyl)benzothioamide (yield: 90 %), which wasused without purification in the following step.
Synthesi -(3,5-bis(trifluoromethyl)phenyl)-lH-l 2,4-triazole:
A 5-L, 3-necked, round-bottomed flask was charged with a solution of 3,5- bis(trifluoromethyl)benzothioamide (205.65 g) in DMF (1.03 L). Hydrazine hydrate (73.2 mL, 2.0 eq.) was added dropwise and the reaction mixture was stirred at RT for 1 h. HCOOH (1.03 L) was added dropwise and the reaction mixture was refluxed at 90 °C for 3 hours. After being allowed to cool to RT, the reaction mixture was poured into saturated aqueous sodium bicarbonate solution (7 L) and extracted with EtOAc (3 x 1 L). The combined organic layers were washed with aqueous saturated brine (3 x 500 mL), dried over anhydrous Na2S04, filtered, and concentrated under reduced pressure (35 °C, 20 mmHg) to afford 180 g of crude compound. This crude material was stirred with petroleum ether (3 x 500 mL) , filtered and dried to obtain 160 g. of 3-(3,5-bis(trifluoromethyl)phenyl)-lH- 1,2,4-triazole obtained as a pale yellow solid (yield: 75%).
Synthesis of (Z)-isopropyl 3-(3-(3,5-bis(trifluoromethyl)phenyl)-lH-l,2,4-triazol-l- yl)acrylate:
A 2-L, 3-necked, round-bottomed flask was charged with a solution of 3-(3,5- bis(trifluoromethyl)phenyl)-lH-l ,2,4-triazole (160 g) in DMF (960 mL). The solution was treated with DABCO (127.74 g, 2 eq.) and stirred for 30 min before adding (Z)-isopropyl 3- iodoacrylate (150.32 g, 1.1 eq.) dropwise. After ca. 1 hour, the reaction mixture was poured into an ice-water slurry (5 L) and extracted with EtOAc (3 x 1 L). The combined organic layers were washed with aqueous saturated brine (3 x 100 mL), dried over anhydrous Na2S04, filtered, and concentrated under reduced pressure (35 °C, 20 mmHg) to afford 250 g of crude compound that was purified by column chromatography (60/120 silica gel) using a ethyl acetate/n-hexane gradient (the column was packed in hexane and the desired compound started eluting from 2% EtOAC/n-hexane). Fractions containing the desired compounds were combined to afford 138 g the pure desired compound (yield: 61%).
Synthesis of (Z)-3 -(3 -(3 ,5-bis(trifluoromethyl)phenyl)- 1 H- 1 ,2,4-triazol- 1 -yl)acrylic acid:
In a 5-L, 3-necked, round-bottomed flask, (Z)-isopropyl 3-(3-(3,5- bis(trifluoromethyl)phenyl)-lH-l,2,4-triazol-l-yl)acrylate (130 g, 1.0 eq.) was dissolved in THF (1.3 L). A solution of LiOH (69.3 g, 5.0 eq.) in water (1.3 L) was added dropwise to the solution and the reaction mixture was stirred at room temperature for 4 h before being quenched with 400 mL ice-water slurry and made acidic (pH = 2-3) with dilute aqueous HC1. The mixture was extracted with EtOAc (3 x 1 L) and the combined organic layers were washed with brine, dried over anhydrous Na2S04 and concentrated under reduced pressure to afford 110 g of desired carboxylic acid (yield: 94 %) (cis content = 90.0%, trans content = 8.2% by LCMS).
Example 17: Synthesis of (E)-3-(3-(3,5-bis(trifluoromethyl)phenyl)-lH-l,2,4-triazol-l-yl)- ‘-(pyrazin-2-yl)acrylohydrazide
Synthesis of 3,5-bis(trifluoromethyl)benzothioamide:
A 2-L, 3 -necked, round-bottomed flask, charged with a solution of 3,5- bis(trifluoromethyl)benzonitrile (200 g) in DMF (1 L), was treated with NaSH (123.7 g, 2.0 eq.) and MgCl2 (186.7 g, 1 eq.). The reaction mixture was stirred at RT for 3 h before being poured into an ice-water slurry (10 L) and was extracted with EtOAc (3 x 1 L). The combined organic extracts were washed with brine (3 x 100 niL), dried over anhydrous Na2S04, filtered, and concentrated under reduced pressure (25 °C, 20 mmHg) to afford 205 g of crude compound (yield: 90 %), which was used in the following step without further purification.
Synthesis of 3-(3,5-bis(trifluoromethyl)phenyl)-lH-l,2,4-triazole:
A 5-L, 3-necked, round-bottomed flask, charged with a solution of 3,5- bis(trifluoromethyl)benzothioamide (205.65 g) in DMF (1.03 L) was treated with hydrazine hydrate (73.16 mL, 2.0 eq.) added dropwise. The reaction mixture was stirred at room temperature for 1 h before being treated with HCOOH (1.028 L) added dropwise. The reaction mixture was refluxed at 90°C for 3 h then cooled to room temperature and poured into saturated aqueous NaHC03 solution (7 L) and extracted with EtOAc (3 x 1L). The combined organic layers were washed with brine (3 x 500 mL), dried over anhydrous Na2S04, filtered, and concentrated under reduced pressure (35°C, 20 mmHg) to afford 180 g of a solid. The solid was suspended in petroleum ether and the suspension was stirred, filtered and dried to afford the desired triazole as a pale yellow solid (160 g, yield: 75%).
Synthesis of (Z)-isopropyl 3-(3-(3,5-bis(trifluoromethyl)phenyl)-lH-l,2,4-triazol-l- yl)acrylate and (E)-isopropyl 3-(3-(3,5-bis(trifluoromethyl)phenyl)-lH-l,2,4-triazol-l- yl)acrylate:
A 2-L, 3-necked, round-bottomed flask, charged with a solution of 3-(3,5- bis(trifluoromethyl)phenyl)-lH-l,2,4-triazole (160 g,) in DMF (0.96 L, 6V), was treated with DAB CO (127.74 g, 2 eq.) and stirred for 30 min. (Z)-isopropyl 3-iodoacrylate (150.32 g, 1.1 eq.) was added dropwise to the above reaction mixture and stirred for 1 h before being poured into an ice-water slurry (5 L) and extracted with EtOAc (3 x 1 L). The combined organic extracts were washed with brine (3 x 100 mL), dried over anhydrous Na2S04, filtered, and concentrated under reduced pressure (35°C, 20 mmHg) to afford 250 g of crude compound. Purification by column chromatography (Si02, 60/120 mesh, elution with EtOAc:hexanes gradient; the desired compounds started eluting in 2-2.5 % EtOAc in hexanes) afforded pure cis ester (138 g, yield: 61.6%) and pure trans ester (11.6 g, yield: 5.2%). Synthesis of (E)-3-(3-(3,5-bis(trifluoromethyl)phenyl)-lH-l ,2,4-triazol-l-yl);
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A 500-mL, 3 -necked, round-bottomed flask was charged with a solution of (E)- isopropyl 3-(3-(3,5-bis(trifluoromethyl)phenyl)-lH-l ,2,4-triazol-l-yl)acrylate (5.0 g) in THF (50 mL). The solution was treated with a solution of LiOH (2.66 g, 5.0 eq.) in water (50 mL) and the reaction mixture was stirred at room temperature for 4 h. before being diluted with 40 mL water, acidified (pH = 2-3) with dilute aqueous HC1 and extracted with EtOAc (3 x 100 mL). The organic extract was washed with brine, dried over anhydrous Na2S04, filtered and concentrated under reduced pressure to afford 2.75 g of the desired unsaturated carboxylic acid (yield: 61.6 %, purity: 99.0 % by LCMS).
Synthesis of (E)-3-(3-(3,5-bis(trifluoromethyl)phenyl)-lH-l,2,4-triazol-l-yl)-N’- (pyrazin-2-yl)acrylohydrazide :
To a solution of (E)-3-(3-(3,5-bis(trifluoromethyl)phenyl)-lH-l,2,4-triazol-l- yl)acrylic acid (0.75 g,) in EtOAc (25 mL) and THF (12.5 mL) was added a solution of 2- hydrazinopyrazine (0.23 g) in 12 mL THF at room temperature. T3P (50% in ethyl acetate, 1.52 mL) and DIPEA (1.46 mL) were added dropwise and simultaneously and the reaction mixture was stirred for 30 min at room temperature before being quenched with ice-cold water and extracted with EtOAc (3 x 25 mL). The combined organic layers were washed with brine, dried over anhydrous Na2S04 and concentrated under reduced pressure (35°C, 20 mmHg), affording 0.698 g of a crude solid. Trituration first with petroleum ether then with Et20 afforded 275 mg (yield: 29%) (E)-3-(3-(3,5-bis(trifiuoromethyl) phenyl)- 1H- 1,2,4- triazol-l-yl)-N’-(pyrazin-2-yl)acrylohydrazide. 1H NMR (400 MHz, DMSO-d6) δ ,10.3 (s, 1H), 9.15 (s, 2H), 8.59 (s, 2H), 8.30-8.26 (d, J= 14.8 Hz, 1H), 8.13 (s, 1H), 8.06-8.07 (m, 1H), 6.98-6.95 (d, J= 13.4 Hz, 1H); LCMS for Ci7H12F6N70 [M+H]+ 443.31 ; found 444.19 (RT 2.625 min, purity: 99.06%).
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(Z)-isopropyl 3-(3-(3,5-bis(trifluoromethyl)phenyl)-lH-l,2,4-triazol-l- yl)acrylate IS THE INTERMEDIATE
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Molecular Weight: 239.12 Molecular Weight: 273.2 Molecular Weight: 281 .2
Molecular Weight: 393.3
[00715] Synthesis of Intermediate 1)
Molecular Weight: 239.12 Molecular Weight: 273.2
[00716] In a 100-mL, 3N round-bottomed flask equipped with nitrogen inlet, and a rubber septum, 3,5-bis(trifluoromethyl)benzonitrile (5.0 g,1.0 eq) dissolved in DMF (50 mL,10V),Added NaSH(3.09 g,2.0eq) and MgC12 (4.24 g,l eq).Reaction mixture was stirred at RT for 2-3h. The progress of reaction was followed by TLC analysis on silica gel with 40%EtOAc- hexane as mobile phase. SM Rf=0.5 and Product Rf=0.3. Reaction mixture was poured in to ice water (250mL) and extracted with EtOAc ( 3x 100 mL). The combined organic layers were washed with brine solution (3xl00mL), dried over MgS04, filtered, and concentrated by rotary evaporation (25°C, 20mmHg) to afford 5.0g of Crude compound which was used for next step without any purification, Yield (87.5%). Mass [M+l]+: 273.8
[00717] Synthesis of Intermediate-2
Molecular Weight: 273.20 Molecular Weight: 281 .16
[00718] In a 250-mL, 3N round-bottomed flask equipped with nitrogen inlet, and a rubber septum, Intermediate- 1(5.0 g, 1.0 eq.) was dissolved in DMF (50 mL,10V),added NH2NH2.H20 (25.0 mL,5V). The reaction mixture was stirred at RT for 1 h. To this reaction mixture HCOOH (25.0 mL, 5V) was added and reaction mixture was refluxed at 90 0 for 2-3 h. The progress of reaction was followed by TLC analysis on silica gel with 50% Ethyl acetate-n-Hexane as mobile phase. SM Rf=0.50 and Product Rf=0.3. Reaction mixture was poured into ice water (500 mL) and neutralized with saturated sodium bicarbonate solution. The reaction mixture was extracted with EtOAc (3×100 mL). The combined organic layers were washed with brine solution,(3xl00mL), dried over MgS04, filtered, and concentrated by rotary evaporation (25°C, 20mmHg) to afford 4.6g of crude compound, yield (89.49%). Mass: 279.6(-ve mode).
Molecular Weight: 281.2 Molecular Weight: 393.3
[00719] In a 100-mL, 3N round-bottomed flask equipped with nitrogen inlet, and a rubber septum, Intermediate-2(4.5 g, 1.0 eq.) was dissolved in DCM(45 mL,10V),added TEA (2.10 g, 1.3 eq) and isopropyl propiolate (2.33 g, 1.3 eq). The Reaction mixture was stirred at RT for 30 min. The progress of reaction was followed by TLC analysis on silica gel with 50% Ethyl acetate-Hexane as mobile phase, SM f=0.30 and Product Rf=0.5. Reaction mixture was concentrated by rotary evaporation (25°C, 20mmHg) to afford 5.8 g of Crude compound. The crude reaction mixture was purified by column chromatography using silica 60/120 using Ethyl acetate: Hexane as mobile phase. The column (5x10cm) was packed in Hexane and started eluting in Ethyl acetate in gradient manner starting with fraction collection(50-mL fractions) from 5 % to 20 % Ethyl acetate in hexane. Compound started eluting with 20% Ethyl acetate in Hexane. Fraction containing such TLC profile was collected together to obtain pure compound (1.4 g), Yield (22.26%).1H NMR: CDC13, 400 MHz) δ 9.74(s,lH),5 8.63(s,2H),5 7.95(s,lH),5 7.28-7.3 l(d,J: 12.0 Hz,lH),55.75-5.78(d,J: 11.2 Ηζ,ΙΗ) δ 5.14-5.17 (m,lH),5 1.27-1.35(m,6H). LCMS of Ci6Hi3F6N302(M+l)+:393.28 found 393.77 at 4.707 min (LCMS 99.25%).
[00720] General method for Example 76, Example 77, Example 78, Example 79, Example 83: A mixture of 5-(3-Chlorophenyl)-l,2,4-triazole (0.50 g, 3.4 mmol), respective propiolate (0.52 ml, 5.1 mmol) and some drops of triethylamine in acetonitrile under nitrogen was stirred at room temperature for 12-16 h. Acetonitrile was removed under reduced pressure to give a residual oil, which was purified by flash chromatography (3-5%> EtOAc/hexanes) to afford the both cis and trans isomers. Cis isomer was isolated 10-30%) and trans was isolated in 30-50%) with overall yield of 50-80%.
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New molecule enables quick drug monitoring

09.06.14 – Scientists at EPFL have invented a molecule that can easily and quickly show how much drug is in a patient’s system. The molecule, now the basis of a start-up company, is expected to enable point-of-care therapeutic drug monitoring.
http://actu.epfl.ch/news/new-molecule-enables-quick-drug-monitoring/
GW Pharma’s Epidiolex on fast track in USA
GW Pharmaceuticals has been boosted by the news that the US Food and Drug Administration has granted fast-track designation to the UK firm’s investigational cannabidiol Epidiolex, in the treatment of Dravet syndrome.
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Cannabidiol Seven Expanded Access INDs granted by FDA to U.S. physicians to treat with Epidiolex 125 children suffering from intractable epilepsy syndromes -
LONDON, Nov. 15, 2013
GW Pharmaceuticals plc (AIM: GWP, Nasdaq: GWPH, “GW”) announced today that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted orphan drug designation for Epidiolex(R), our product candidate that contains plant-derived Cannabidiol (CBD) as its active ingredient, for use in treating children with Dravet syndrome, a rare and severe form of infantile-onset, genetic, drug-resistant epilepsy syndrome. Epidiolex is an oral liquid formulation of a highly purified extract of CBD, a non-psychoactive molecule from the cannabis plant. Following receipt of this orphan designation, GW anticipates holding a pre-IND meeting with the FDA in the near future to discuss a development plan for Epidiolex in Dravet syndrome.
Dravet syndrome is a rare pediatric epilepsy syndrome with a distinctive but complex electroclinical presentation. Onset of Dravet syndrome occurs during the first year of life with clonic and tonic-clonic seizures in previously healthy and developmentally normal infants. Prognosis is poor and patients typically develop intellectual disability and life-long ongoing seizures. There are approximately 5,440 patients with Dravet in the United States and an estimated 6,710 Dravet patients in Europe. These figures may be an underestimate as this syndrome is reportedly underdiagnosed.
In addition to GW’s clinical development program for Epidiolex in Dravet syndrome, which is expected to commence in 2014, GW has also made arrangements to enable independent U.S. pediatric epilepsy specialists to treat high need pediatric epilepsy cases with Epidiolex immediately. To date in 2013, a total of seven “expanded access” INDs have been granted by the FDA to U.S. clinicians to allow treatment with Epidiolex of approximately 125 children with epilepsy. These children suffer from Dravet syndrome, Lennox-Gastaut syndrome, and other pediatric epilepsy syndromes. GW is aware of further interest from additional U.S. and ex-U.S. physicians to host similar INDs for Epidiolex. GW expects data generated under these INDs to provide useful observational data during 2014 on the effect of Epidiolex in the treatment of a range of pediatric epilepsy syndromes.
“I, together with many colleagues in the U.S. who specialize in the treatment of childhood epilepsy, very much welcome the opportunity to investigate Epidiolex in the treatment of Dravet syndrome. The FDA’s timely approval of the orphan drug designation for Epidiolex in Dravet syndrome is a key milestone that comes after many years of reported clinical cases that suggest encouraging evidence of efficacy for CBD in this intractable condition,” stated Dr. Orrin Devinsky, Professor of Neurology, Neurosurgery and Psychiatry in New York City. “With GW now making plans to advance Epidiolex through an FDA development program, we have the prospect for the first time of fully understanding the science of CBD in epilepsy with a view to making an appropriately tested and approved prescription medicine available in the future for children who suffer from this debilitating disease.”
“GW is proud to be at the forefront of this important new program to treat children with Dravet Syndrome and potentially other forms of intractable childhood epilepsy. For families in these circumstances, their lives are significantly impacted by constant and often times very severe seizures in children where all options to control these seizures have been exhausted,” stated Dr. Stephen Wright, GW’s R&D Director. “GW intends to advance a full clinical development program for Epidiolex in Dravet syndrome as quickly as possible, whilst at the same time helping families in the short term through supporting physician-led INDs to treat intractable cases. Through its efforts, GW aims to provide the necessary evidence to confirm the promise of CBD in epilepsy and ultimately enabling children to have access to an FDA-approved prescription CBD medicine.”
“This orphan program for Epidiolex in childhood epilepsy is an important corporate strategic priority for GW. Following receipt of today’s orphan designation, GW now intends to commence discussions with the FDA regarding the U.S. regulatory pathway for Epidiolex,” stated Justin Gover, GW’s Chief Executive Officer. “GW intends to pursue this development in-house and retains full commercial rights to Epidiolex.”
About Orphan Drug Designation
Under the Orphan Drug Act, the FDA may grant orphan drug designation to drugs intended to treat a rare disease or condition — generally a disease or condition that affects fewer than 200,000 individuals in the U.S. The first NDA applicant to receive FDA approval for a particular active ingredient to treat a particular disease with FDA orphan drug designation is entitled to a seven-year exclusive marketing period in the U.S. for that product, for that indication.
About GW Pharmaceuticals plc
Founded in 1998, GW is a biopharmaceutical company focused on discovering, developing and commercializing novel therapeutics from its proprietary cannabinoid product platform in a broad range of disease areas. GW commercialized the world’s first plant-derived cannabinoid prescription drug, Sativex(R), which is approved for the treatment of spasticity due to multiple sclerosis in 22 countries. Sativex is also in Phase 3 clinical development as a potential treatment of pain in people with advanced cancer. This Phase 3 program is intended to support the submission of a New Drug Application for Sativex in cancer pain with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and in other markets around the world. GW has established a world leading position in the development of plant-derived cannabinoid therapeutics and has a deep pipeline of additional clinical-stage cannabinoid product candidates targeting epilepsy (including an orphan pediatric epilepsy program), Type 2 diabetes, ulcerative colitis, glioma and schizophrenia. For further information, please visithttp://www.gwpharm.com.
Cannabidiol (CBD) is one of at least 85 cannabinoids found in cannabis.It is a major constituent of the plant, second to tetrahydrocannabinol (THC), and represents up to 40% in its extracts. Compared with THC, cannabidiol is not psychoactive in healthy individuals, and is considered to have a wider scope of medical applications than THC, including to epilepsy, multiple sclerosis spasms,anxiety disorders, bipolar disorder,schizophrenia,nausea, convulsion and inflammation, as well as inhibiting cancer cell growth. There is some preclinical evidence from studies in animals that suggests CBD may modestly reduce the clearance of THC from the body by interfering with its metabolism.Cannabidiol has displayed sedative effects in animal tests. Other research indicates that CBD increases alertness. CBD has been shown to reduce growth of aggressive human breast cancer cells in vitro, and to reduce their invasiveness.
A New Way to Treat Diabetes?
Type-2 diabetes is a severe metabolic disease caused by the loss of the cells producing the hormone insulin. Since this molecule controls the up-take of glucose from the circulation, diabetic patients accumulate pathological levels of sugar in their blood.
Amidation of phenol derivatives: a direct synthesis of paracetamol (acetaminophen) from hydroquinone
Amidation of phenol derivatives: a direct synthesis of paracetamol (acetaminophen) from hydroquinone
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Paracetamol (acetaminophen) was prepared from hydroquinone and ammonium acetate in acetic acid with 88% yield and >99% purity.

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Patient stem cells used to make ‘heart disease-on-a-chip’
Researchers use modified RNA transfection to correct genetic dysfunction in heart stem cells derived from Barth syndrome patients. The series of images show how inserting modified RNA into diseased cells causes the cells to produce functioning versions of the TAZ protein (first image: in green) that correctly localize in the mitochondria (second image: in red). When the images are merged to demonstrate this localization, green overlaps with red, giving the third image a yellow color. (Credit: Gang Wang and William Pu/Boston Children’s Hospital)
Harvard scientists have merged stem cell and ‘organ-on-a-chip’ technologies to grow, for the first time, functioning human heart tissue carrying an inherited cardiovascular disease. The research appears to be a big step forward for personalized medicine, as it is working proof that a chunk of tissue containing a patient’s specific genetic disorder can be replicated in the laboratory.
The work, published in Nature Medicine, is the result of a collaborative effort bringing together scientists from the Harvard Stem Cell Institute, the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering, Boston Children’s Hospital, the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, and Harvard Medical School. It combines the ‘organs-on-chips’ expertise of Kevin Kit Parker, PhD, and stem cell and clinical insights by William Pu, MD.
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Misassigned (top) and corrected (bottom) structures of bioactive TIC10.
Tug Of War Over Promising Cancer Drug Candidate
A promising anticancer agent about to enter human clinical trials is on the hook because of a chemical structure error discovered by scientists at Scripps Research Institute California. The patented compound, known as TIC10 or ONC201, is owned by the biotech firm Oncoceutics. However, Scripps has applied for a patent on the corrected structure and has licensed it exclusively to another company, Sorrento Therapeutics.
The reanalysis and relicensing could lead to an unprecedented legal case—the first in which a structural reassignment puts in jeopardy a patent and clinical trials.
Lee Schalop, Oncoceutics’ chief business officer, tells C&EN that the chemical structure is not relevant to Oncoceutics’ underlying invention. Plans for the clinical trials of TIC10 are moving forward.
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