Dimethylamine → Imatinib

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Reaction Conditions

Reaction Steps

A suspension of N-(3-guanidino-4-methyl-phenyl)-4-(4-methyl-piperazin-1-ylmethyl)-benz-amide (30 g, 79 mmol) in n-butanol (150 ml) at 120° C. under an atmosphere of nitrogen is treated with 3-dimethylamino-1-pyridin-3-yl-propenone (15.3 g, 87 mmol). The resulting suspension is heated at 150° C. for 5 hrs. The reaction mixtures becomes a homogeneous deep orange solution and dimethylamine is removed by the distillation of n-butanol (130 ml). n-Butanol (20 ml) is added during the distillation. Butyl acetate (60 ml) is added dropwise at 100° C. and the solution is cooled to 0° C. within 1 hr and stirred at 0° C. for 16 hrs. The resulting deep orange suspension is filtered off with suction, the isolated solid is washed with n-butanol (2×50 ml) and water (2×50 ml) and dried in vacuo at 60° C. Yield: 36.4 g of the title compound, 93% based on theory, as off-white crystals. (99.6% area by HPLC).

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