Paper
LIU Haibo, LI Ming, YAN Meihan, HE Jun, WANG Zhefeng
In this study, the synthetic method of sparsentan(1) was improved. With 4-bromo-3-methylbenzonitrile(2)
as the starting material, 3-(ethoxymethyl)-4-(4,4,5,5-tetramethyl-1,3,2-dioxaborolan-2-yl)benzaldehyde(6)
was obtained via free radical substitution, nucleophilic substitution, cyano reduction, Miyaura borylation. In another
way, the condensation of 2-bromobenzenesulfonyl chloride(7) with 3-amino-4,5-dimethylisoxazole(8) was conducted,
followed by the amino-protection to give 2-bromo-N-(4,5-dimethylisoxazol-3-yl)-N-[(2-methoxyethoxy)methyl]benzenesulfonamide(11).
Intermediates 6 and 11 reacted via Suzuki coupling reaction to get N-(4,5-dimethylisoxazol-3-yl)-2'-
(ethoxymethyl)-4'-formyl-N-[(2-methoxyethoxy)methyl]-[1,1'-biphenyl]-2-sulfonamide(12), then the target compound
1 was obtained from compound 12 via reduction, bromination, condensation and deprotection. The total yield was about
43.25% (based on 2) with the purity of 99.5% . The optimized route avoided the usage of the dangerous and toxic reagents
such as n-butyl lithium and carbon tetrabromoide, and simpliffed some puriffcations.