Isolation and characterisation of impurities in adapalene
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Published on: September 16, 2013
Elisabetta Brenna1, Samuele Frigoli, Giovanni Fronza
1Dipartimento di Chimica, Materiali ed Ingegneria Chimica del Politecnico, Istituto CNR per la Chimica del Riconoscimento Molecolare, Via Mancinelli 7, I-20131 Milano, Italy. elisabetta.brenna@polimi.it
Abstract:
Three impurities of structure 2-4 were isolated and characterised during the optimisation of a synthetic procedure to adapalene. Impurity 1 was a by-product of the Friedel-Crafts reaction of adamantanol with 4-bromoanisole. Impurities 3 and 4 were due to side reactions of the final Negishi coupling.
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