Water → Levofloxacin Hydrate

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1 g of levofloxacin crude was put in suspension in 1.5 ml of DMSO. The mixture was heated to 108° C. until complete dissolution of the material. Then H2O (7.5 ml) was added over 10 minutes and the mixture was cooled to RT. The precipitate was filtrated under vacuum, washed with 1 ml of a mixture DMSO:H2O 1:5 and dried at 60° C. in an air-flow oven to give 840 mg (84%) of purified levofloxacin hemihydrate.

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