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Casopitant was identified as a potent NK₁ antagonist by GlaxoSmithKline (GSK). It was selected as part of a wide drug discovery programme within GSK for its potential activities on a number of therapeutic targets such as inflammatory bowel disease, overactive bladder, CNS disorders, and others.

The mesylate salt of casopitant was selected for full development. The manufacturing process to casopitant mesylate was developed and optimised by following a Quality by Design approach, whereby a control strategy was developed, underpinned by process understanding and risk analysis, for an enhanced level of quality assurance.

Quality process parameters and specifications levels for the Stages 2a, 2b, and 2c are the elements of the control strategy of the manufacturing process discussed in detail in this paper. The Design of Experiment approach has been extensively used to support the definition of the proven acceptable ranges for the process. The aim is to show the process development studies carried out to ensure quality control for the final drug substance.

(2R,4S)-4-(4-Acetyl-1-piperazinyl)-N-{(1R)-1-[3,5-bis(tri- fluoromethyl)phenyl]ethyl}-2-(4-fluoro-2-methylphenyl)-Nmethyl-1-piperidinecarboxamide Methanesulfonate Salt (Casopitant Mesylate 1). The solution of casopitant 2 was then diluted with EtOAc (overall solution of 2 in EtOAc was 4 L) and acetone (4.5 L) and was heated to the required temperature (from 39 °C). Then, neat methanesulfonic acid (0.12 L, 1.64 mol) was added, followed by a slurry of 2 (0.005 kg) in EtOAc (0.05 L) as seed. The obtained suspension was stirred for 1 h. Then, isooctane (3 L) was added in the required time (1 h), and the slurry was cooled to 20 °C in 2 h and aged 3 h. The suspension was filtered, and the solid was washed with EtOAc (3 × 4 L). The white solid was dried overnight under vacuum at 40 °C to give the desired casopitant mesylate 1 (0.94 kg, yield 48% mol with respect to 7). 1 H NMR (600 MHz, DMSO-d6): δ 9.57 (br s, 1H), 7.99 (br s, 1H), 7.68 (br s, 2H), 7.23 (m, 1H), 6.95 (dd, 1H), 6.82 (m, 1H), 5.31 (q, 1H), 4.45 (m, 1H), 4.20 (dd, 1H), 3.99 (m, 1H), 3.56 (m, 1H), 3.47 (m, 3H), 3.37 (m, 1H), 3.15 (m, 1H), 2.96 (m, 1H), 2.87 (m, 1H), 2.80 (t, 1H), 2.74 (s, 3H), 2.36 (s, 3H), 2.30 (s, 3H), 2.13 (m, 1H), 2.08 (m, 1H), 2.10 (s, 3H), 1.87 (m, 1H), 1.73 (m, 1H), 1.46 (d, 3H). MS: m/z 617 [MH]+, as free base.

CASE STUDY 2

Development of a Control Strategy for a Defluorinated Analogue in the Manufacturing Process of Casopitant Mesylate

Casopitant mesylate was identified as part of the search for drugs with activity on the Central Nervous System (CNS) by GlaxoSmithKline. During late-phase development studies to develop the manufacturing process, a new impurity was found. This synthetic impurity, a defluorinated analogue of the drug substance, is discussed in detail to show the process development studies carried out to ensure quality control for the final drug substance following the principles of quality by design. The process understanding gained, in combination with risk analysis, allowed the development of a control strategy for enhanced level of quality assurance. This Control Strategy allows moving the control of this impurity to the point of origin instead of testing in the drug substance.

CASE STUDY 3

Journal of Pharmaceutical Innovation
December 2013, Volume 8, Issue 4, pp 247–264
Impact of Quality by Design in Process Development on the Analytical Control Strategy for a Small-Molecule Drug Substance

Bryan C. Castle, Robert A. Forbes

DOI: 10.1007/s12247-013-9165-y
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Castle, B.C. & Forbes, R.A. J Pharm Innov (2013) 8: 247. doi:10.1007/s12247-013-9165-y

Development of the arzoxifene hydrochloride drug substance manufacturing process, first via a traditional approach and subsequently via an enhanced approach, provides an informative case study in quality by design (QbD). The primary focus of this paper is to illustrate the impact and advantages of QbD on the impurity control strategy. By operating the process at the extremes during design space studies, a larger collection of organic impurities and higher levels of typical impurities are observed in the intermediates. This enables a more thorough understanding of the ability of the process to purify the drug substance and results in a more complete and robust set of intermediate specifications as well as broader and more robust analytical methods. We demonstrate that, when each of the synthetic steps are operated within the design space, the byproduct impurities in the intermediates will not exceed levels found to be rejected in subsequent steps, ensuring that the drug substance will meet its critical quality attributes. Through the rigorous application of an enhanced process development approach, we have designed quality into the arzoxifene hydrochloride drug substance. As a result, real-time release of the intermediate batches is proposed to increase the process throughput and avoid the expense of nonvalue-added testing.

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Process for the second pilot-plant implementation

Process parameter ranges and typical results from approximately 20 lab experiments conducted on the process shown in Scheme

Figure 3. Ishikawa diagram for the API step, highlighting factors that potentially affect the enantiomeric purity of the product. Factors shown in blue were accounted for in the sulfonylation reaction and distillative crystallization models. Factors shown in red were not included in the models

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Based on the outcome of the DoE study, 1.75 equivalents of NC-NH2 with a 4 hour HCl dosing were chosen for
scale up. These conditions balanced process robustness with optimized yield, purity, and economic recovery.
Faster HCl dosing rates were avoided due to risk of accumulation. 60 °C was also chosen, higher temperatures
were avoided due to the safety risk and lower temperatures resulted in residual aniline. The process was
successfully introduced into production and multiple tons of material have been produced with this process,
without failure.

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Application of On-Line NIR for Process Control during the Manufacture of Sitagliptin

Abstract

The transamination-chemistry-based process for sitagliptin is a through-process, which challenges the crystallization of the active pharmaceutical ingredient (API) in a batch stream composed of multiple components. Risk-assessment-based design of experiment (DoE) studies of particle size distribution (PSD) and crystallization showed that the final API PSD strongly depends on the seeding-point temperature, which in turn relies on the solution composition. To determine the solution composition, near-infrared (NIR) methods had been developed with partial least squares (PLS) regression on spectra of simulated process samples whose compositions were made by spiking each pure component, either sitagliptin free base (FB), water, isopropyl alcohol (IPA), dimethyl sulfoxide (DMSO), or isopropyl acetate (IPAc), into the process stream according to a DoE. An additional update to the PLS models was made by incorporating the matrix difference between simulated samples in lab and factory batches. Overall, at temperatures of 20–35 °C, the NIR models provided a standard error of prediction (SEP) of less than 0.23 wt % for FB in 10.56–32.91 wt %, 0.22 wt % for DMSO in 3.77–19.18 wt %, 0.32 wt % for IPAc in 0.00–5.70 wt %, and 0.23 wt % for water in 11.20–28.58 wt %. After passing the performance qualification, these on-line NIR methods were successfully established and applied for the on-line analysis of production batches for compositions prior to the seeding point of sitagliptin crystallization.

http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/acs.oprd.5b00409?journalCode=oprdfk

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A biocatalytic manufaturing route for januvia – Society of Chemical …

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Example of QbD Application in Japan

The influence of four parameters (temperature, scavenging time, amount of scavenger, and concentration of palladium in the solution) on the efficiency of Pd removal from a cross-coupling reaction, using a commercially available Pd scavenger, SPM32, was studied. The DoE-based method employed yielded more information than is readily attainable from standard adsorption isotherms and kinetics experiments. The optimal regime of scavenging was identified; intuitive and nonintuitive effects of temperature, scavenging time, and scavenger amounts were highlighted; and a mathematical model quantifying predicted Pd removal from the synthetic intermediate was built.

link http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/op5000336

Statistical DoE Approach to the Removal of Palladium from Active Pharmaceutical Ingredients (APIs) by Functionalized Silica Adsorbents

Jan Recho*, Richard J. G. Black, Christopher North, James E. Ward, and Robin D. Wilkes

PhosphonicS Ltd., 44c Western Avenue, Milton Park, Abingdon, OX14 4RU, United Kingdom

Org. Process Res. Dev., 2014, 18 (5), pp 626–635

DOI: 10.1021/op5000336

Publication Date (Web): April 14, 2014

Copyright © 2014 American Chemical Society

*E-mail: jan.recho@phosphonics.com.

Preparation of tert-butyl 2-[(4-cyanophenyl)amino]propanoate (3).

4-Bromobenzonitrile (18.20 g, 100 mmol), L-alanine tert-butyl ester hydrochloride (21.73 g, 120 mmol), ±BINAP (1.25 g, 2 mmol) and cesium carbonate (48.87 g, 150 mmol) were added to a 3-neck round bottom flask containing a magnetic stirrer. Toluene (167 mL) was added and a reflux condenser, thermometer and a rubber septum were attached. Argon gas was bubbled through as the heterogeneous mixture was warmed to reflux temperature with slow agitation from the magnetic stirrer. Palladium acetate (0.45 g, 2 mmol) was added quickly through one of the side-arm joints and de-gassing was continued for 5 min. The reaction mixture was kept under argon at reflux and the disappearance of 4-bromobenzonitrile was monitored by GC-MS. After 16-24 h, the reaction mixture was filtered through a sinter funnel, washed with toluene and then filtered through a nylon membrane (Sigma Aldrich catalogue no. Z290793, 0.45 µm pore size) and washed with toluene. This crude reaction mixture was used in the DoE matrix without further purification.

Experimental results

NMR δC (62.9 MHz, CDCl3): 172.7, 150.0, 133.7, 120.4, 112.7, 99.3, 82.3, 51.7, 28.0, 18.5 ppm.

NMR δH (250 MHz, CDCl3): 7.39 (2H, d, J = 8.8 Hz, Ph), 6.52 (2H, d, J = 8.8 Hz, Ph), 4.85 (1H, d, J = 7.4 Hz, NH), 4.01 (1H, quintet, J = 7.4 Hz, CH(Me), 1.43 (9H, s, tBu), 1.42 (3H, d, J = 7.4 Hz, Me).

GC/MS: GC method used: hold at 50 °C for 4 min; increase temperature from 50 to 280 °C at 30 °C / min; hold at 280 °C for 5 min. Peaks were recorded and identified as follows: 4-Bromobenzonitrile: 10.05 min. Molecular peak observed at m/z = 181 for the 79Br isotope, m/z = 183 for the 81Br isotope L-alanine tert-butyl ester hydrochloride: not observed. Retention time less than 5 min, peak lost within the solvent front. Product: 13.64 min. Molecular peak observed at m/z = 246, main fragment at m/z = 146 (M – CO2 t Bu) Side product (not identified or quantified, minor peak): 14.56 min.

 

Corresponding Author *E-mail: jan.recho@phosphonics.com.

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