Fuganti

Claudio Fuganti, Milano IT

Patent application number	Description	Published
20080287693	Process for the Preparation of 1-Naphthol Mixed Ethers and Intermediates of Crystalline Forms of (+) and (-)-Duloxetine - The invention relates to a process for the preparation of duloxetine (1a), comprising the reaction between 1-fluoronaphthalene and 3-N,N-dimethylamino-1-(2-thienyl)-propan-1-ol in the presence of 1,3-dimethyl-2-oxo-hexahydropyrimidine (DMPU) as the solvent; a method for the identification of duloxetine enantiomers and for the determination of its optical purity is also disclosed.	11-20-2008

Patent application number	Description	Published
20110230541	PROCESS FOR THE PREPARATION OF ROTIGOTINE - A process for the preparation of Rotigotine (I) and of pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof, which comprises the reductive amination of an amine of formula 6 with the 2-thienylacetic acid-sodium boron hydride complex and which makes use of hydrobromide 5 as an intermediate (II) The process is advantageous from the industrial point of view in that it allows to obtain Rotigotine with high enantiomeric purity starting from optically active 5,6,7,8-tetrahydro-6-(S)-N-propylamino-1-methoxy-naphthalene (2), avoiding the use of dangerous reactives, the need for difficult chromatographic separation or the formation of by-products. Furthermore, two novel crystalline forms are disclosed.	09-22-2011