Chinese Journal of Pharmaceuticals, Volume. 56, Issue 7, 857(2025)
Improved Synthesis of Antihepatitis C Virus Drug Daclatasvir Dihydrochloride
XING Linfeng1,2,3, MENG Dongshuo2,3, JIN Jiayu1, and LIU Yu2,3、*
Author Affiliations
1Shanghai Desano Medicine Co., Ltd., Shanghai 2012032Incubation Center for Science and Technology Achievements, China State Institute of Pharmaceutical Industry Co., Ltd., Shanghai 2012033National Key Lab. of Lead Druggability Research, Shanghai Institute of Pharmaceutical Industry Co., Ltd., China State Institute of Pharmaceutical Industry Co., Ltd., Shanghai 201203show less
In the research, biphenyl (2) was used as starting material to synthesize 4, 4'-bis(2-bromoacetyl)-1, 1'-biphenyl (3) with high yield. Then, 4, 4'-bis[N-tert-butoxycarbonyl-(2S)-pyrrolidine-2-carbonyloxymethylformyl]-1, 1'-biphenyl (5) was synthesized via esterification between 3 and N-tert-butoxycarbonyl-L-proline (4). 4, 4'-Bis[2-[N-tert-butoxycarbonyl-(2S)-pyrrolidine-2-yl]-1H-imidazol-5-yl]-1, 1'-biphenyl (6) was prepared by ammonolysis and cyclization of 5. Compound 6 was deprotected by hydrochloric acid to give 4, 4'-bis[2-[(2S)-pyrrolidine-2-yl]-1H-imidazol-5-yl]-1, 1'-biphenyl tetrahydrochloride (7), which was followed by condensation with N-(methoxycarbonyl)-L-valine (8) to give the N, N'-[(1, 1'-biphenyl)-4, 4'-diylbis [1H-imidazole-5, 2-diyl-(2S)-2, 1-pyrrolidinediyl[(1S)-1-(1-methylethyl)-2-oxo-2, 1-ethanediyl]]]biscarbamic acid C, C'-dimethyl ester (9), and 9 went through salt formation with HCl to provide daclatasvir dihydrochloride (1). The total mole yield was 38.5% and purity was 99.75%. The improved process has low cost and mild reaction condition, which is very suitable for industrial production.