Hydrochloric Acid → Olamufloxacin

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Reaction Steps

To 8.80 g of 5-amino-7-((S)-7-tert-butoxycarbonylamino-5-azaspiro[2.4]hept-5-yl)-1-cyclopropyl-6-fluoro-1,4-dihydro-8-methyl-4-oxoquinoline-3-carboxylic acid, 11 ml of hydrochloric acid was added and then stirred at room temperature for 1.5 hours. To the reaction mixture, a solution of 10.5 g of potassium hydroxide in 32 ml of water was added under ice cooling and resulting mixture was neutralized with 10% hydrochloric acid to pH 8. The deposited crystals were collected by filtration and washed with water. The crystals were diluted with methylene chloride, inorganic substance was filtered off and the resulting filtrate was evaporated. The residue was triturated with diethyl ether to give 5.53 g of the desired compound as yellow crystals. Recrystallization from acetonitrile gave yellow prisms, which was identified as the compound of Example 10.

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