Water → Methanesulfonic Acid

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To a 5-L 3-neck flask under an inert nitrogen atmosphere, 2.0 L of isopropanol (IPA) was charged. A slurry was prepared by adding 289 g of the amorphous free base of Compound 1 to the flask. A solution of p-toluenesulfonic acid hydrate (97.0 g) in IPA (400 mL) was then added to the slurry. The water content of the slurry supernatant was adjusted to 0.6 g/L with the addition of water (9 mL), and the slurry was stirred at 20-25° C. for 18 hours to produce a thick crystalline slurry. The slurry was filtered and washed with IPA (2×500 mL). Excess IPA was removed from the crystalline cake by blowing dry nitrogen through the cake for 24 hours. With the solids containing 3 weight-percent (wt %) of IPA, the cake was further dried by blowing humidified nitrogen through the cake at a relative humidity of 70-75% for 24 hours. The cake retained 0.9 wt % of IPA that was not further reduced by this method. Excess water was then removed from the cake by blowing dry nitrogen through the cake for 24 hours. The tosylate salt of Compound 1 was isolated as an orange powder (337 g). The isolated tosylate salt of Compound 1 was crystalline with only one observed form: a non-stoichiometric hemihydrate, as determined by x-ray powder diffraction (XPRD) and thermogravimetric (TG) analysis.

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