Hydrochloric Acid → Oxycodone Hydrochloride

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5 g of oxycodone product from comparative example 2 was added to a 100 ml flask. Water (10 ml) and isopropanol (10 ml) were added and the mixture was stirred. Concentrated hydrochloric acid (2.64 ml) was added. The mixture was heated to 75° C. for 10 hours and stirred at ambient temperature overnight. The mixture was transferred to a hydrogenation bottle and was heated to 45° C. 5 wt % palladium on carbon catalyst (0.5 g) was added to the mixture and hydrogen was passed through the mixture at about 12 psi for 6.5 hours. The mixture was warmed to 55° C., passed through a filter paper, cooled to room temperature and then placed in an ice bath for 30 minutes. The solid product was filtered, rinsed with cold isopropanol and dried overnight under a vacuum pump. The product was oxycodone hydrochloride (5.533 g, 99.2%) and contained less than 2 ppm 14-hydroxycodeinone (measured by HPLC and MS-SIM (mass spectrometry with selected ion monitoring)).

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