Optimization and process improvement for LCZ696 by employing quality by design (QbD) principles

Efforts toward optimization and improvement for the synthesis of LCZ696 employing design of experiment (DoE) principles are described. By increasing the purity of intermediates and mitigating impurity risk during each step, a telescoped process was developed via removal of isolation of intermediates with the overall yield increased by 28.5% from 45.3% to 73.8%. And the whole production cycle was also shortened from 12 days to 7 days with simplified operations and restored process greenness. Meanwhile, the corresponding impurity profile was thus studied in detail and well documented. (C) 2020 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.