Piperazine Dihydrochloride → Irbesartan

Participants

Reaction Steps

A mixture of 2-n-butyl-3-[(2′-cyanobiphenyl-4-yl)methyl]-1,3-diazaspiro-[4,4]-non-1-en-4-one (10 g), sodium azide (7.7 g) and piperazine dihydrochloride (7.5 g) in N,N-dimethylformamide (30 ml) was refluxed for 7 hours under stirring. The reaction was cooled to room temperature and 20 ml water was added. The reaction mixture was adjusted to pH of about 12 using 10% NaOH solution. The alkaline solution was washed with toluene (15 ml) and the aqueous phase was neutralized to pH of 6.5 using concentrated HCl. The resulting suspension was stirred for 3 hours at room temperature and filtered to obtain irbesartan (5.8 g, 98% purity by HPLC). Recrystallization of the Product using ethanol results in 5.2 g of irbesartan with 99.94% purity and content of the impurity 2-n-butyl-3-[(2′-carboxamidobiphenyl-4-yl)methyl]-1,3-diazaspiro-[4,4]-non-1-en-4-one: 0.07%.

Provenance & Evidence