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Definitions

• This invention relates to organic chemistry, in particular to processes for the preparation of 3,4- diaryl-4,5-dihydro-(1 H)-pyrazole-1-carboxamidine derivatives, known as potent cannabinoid-CB-i receptor antagonists.
• the invention also relates to novel intermediates of these compounds.
• Compounds A and B are 3,4-diaryl-4,5-dihydro-1 H-pyrazole-1 -carboxamidine derivatives representative for the cannabinoid-CBi receptor antagonists disclosed in WO 01/70700 and WO 03/026648.
• the objective of the present invention was to develop a novel synthetic route to 3,4-diaryl-4,5- dihydro-(1 H)-pyrazole-1-carboxamidine derivatives, with higher yields than the known routes, and avoiding the use of corrosive reagents.
• R 1 and R 2 independently are chosen from (d- 3 )-alkyl or (Ci. 3 )-alkoxy, hydroxy, halogen, trifluoromethyl, trifluoromethoxy and cyano, - m and n independently are 0, 1 or 2,
• R 3 is branched or linear (Ci -8 )-alkyl or (C 3-8 )-cycloalkyl
• R 4 is chosen from phenyl, thienyl or pyridyl, which groups are unsubstituted or substituted with 1 or 2 substituents, which can be the same or different, chosen from (Ci -3 )-alkyl or (Ci -3 ) -alkoxy, hydroxy, halogen, trifluoromethyl, trifluoromethoxy and cyano, or R 4 represents a monocyclic or bicyclic (C 5 .i 0 )-alkyl or (C 5- i 0 )-alkenyl group, or a monocyclic or bicyclic hetero-(C 5 -io)-alkyl or hetero-(C 5- io)-alkenyl group containing one or two ring heteroatoms or ring heteroatom-containing moieties chosen from N, O, S or SO 2 , and which R 4 group is unsubstituted or substituted with a substituent chosen from hydroxy or (Ci -3 )- alkyl
• the invention also relates to a process for the preparation of a compound of formula (I) wherein Ri and R 2 independently are chosen from (Ci. 3 )-alkyl, trifluoromethyl or halogen; m and n independently are 0 or 1 ; R 3 is branched or linear (Ci_ 3 )-alkyl; R 4 represents phenyl, unsubstituted or substituted with 1 substituent chosen from (Ci.
• R 4 represents a monocyclic hetero-(C 5 -io)-alkyl group, which contains one or two ring heteroatoms chosen from N, O and S or R 4 represents a 4,4-difluoropiperidin-1-yl, 4- fluoropiperidin-1-yl or 4-(trifluoromethyl)piperidin-1 -yl group.
• Another embodiment relates to a process for the preparation of a compound of formula (I) wherein Ri and R 2 are halogen; m and n independently are 0 or 1 ; R 3 is methyl; R 4 represents phenyl, unsubstituted or substituted with 1 halogen atom, or R 4 represents a piperidin-1 -yl or 4,4-difluoropiperidin-1 -yl group.
• a further embodiment provides a process for the preparation of a compound of formula (I) wherein R 1 is 4-CI; m is 1 and n is 0; R 3 is methyl, and R 4 is chosen from 4-chlorophenyl, piperidin-1 -yl and 4,4-difluoropiperidin-1-yl.
• R 3 is branched or linear (Ci_ 8 )-alkyl, and the other symbols have the meanings given above, as well as tautomers, stereoisomers, N-oxides, and salts of any of the foregoing.
• Such compounds are useful in the synthesis of compounds of formula (I).
• Further embodiments provide one or more compounds of formula (IV)
• R x represents a linear (Ci_ 8 )alkyl group, and the symbols have the meanings given above, as well as tautomers, stereoisomers, N-oxides, and salts of any of the foregoing.
• Such compounds are useful in the synthesis of compounds of formula (I).
• Isolation and purification of the compounds and intermediates described herein can be affected, if desired, by any suitable separation or purification procedure, for example, filtration, extraction, crystallization, column chromatography, thin-layer chromatography, thick-layer chromatography, preparative low or high-pressure liquid chromatography, or a combination of these procedures.
• suitable separation and isolation procedures can be taken from the preparations and examples. However, other equivalent separation or isolation procedures could, of course, also be used.
• the compounds of the present invention may contain one or more chiral centers and can thus occur as racemates and racemic mixtures, single enantiomers, diastereomeric mixtures and individual diastereomers. All compounds of the present invention contain a chiral center at the C 4 atom of their 4,5-dihydro-1 H-pyrazole moiety. Depending on the nature of the various substituents, the molecule can have additional asymmetric centers. Each such asymmetric center will independently produce two optical isomers. All of the possible optical isomers, enantiomers and diastereomers, in mixtures and as pure or partially purified compounds, belong to this invention. The present invention comprehends all such isomeric forms of these compounds.
• Formulae (III), (Ilia) and (IV) show the structure of the class of compounds without preferred stereochemistry.
• the independent syntheses of these optical isomers, or their chromatographic separations, may be achieved as known in the art by appropriate modification of the methodology disclosed therein.
• Their absolute stereochemistry may be determined by the X-ray crystallography of crystalline products or crystalline intermediates, which are derivatized, if necessary, with a reagent containing a chiral center of known absolute configuration.
• Racemic mixtures of the compounds can be separated into the individual enantiomers by methods well-known in the art, such as the coupling of a racemic mixture of compounds to an enantiomerically pure compound to form a diastereomeric mixture, followed by separation of the individual diastereomers by standard methods, such as fractional crystallization or chromatography.
• the coupling often consists of the formation of salts using an enantiomerically pure acid or base, for example (-)-di-p-toluoyl-D- tartaric acid or (+ )-d i-p-tol uoy l-L-tarta ric acid.
• the diasteromeric derivatives may then be converted to the pure enantiomers by cleavage of the added chiral residue.
• the racemic mixture of the compounds can also be separated directly by chromatographic methods utilizing chiral stationary phases, well-known in the art.
• any enantiomer of a compound may be obtained by stereoselective synthesis using optically pure starting materials or reagents of known configuration by methods well-known in the art.
• Cis and trans isomers of compounds of formulae (III), (Ilia) and (IV), or salts thereof, also belong to the invention, and this applies to their tautomers, too.
• the synthetic strategy in this novel route is essentially different from the known routes since in those the R 3 -NH moiety in the compound of general formula (I) was introduced by a nucleophilic displacement of a leaving group - such as a chloro atom or a methylsulfanyl group - in the last step of the reaction sequence.
• a leaving group - such as a chloro atom or a methylsulfanyl group - in the last step of the reaction sequence.
• the R 3 NH group is introduced at a much earlier stage in the process as an electrophile (R 3 -isothiocyanate) via reaction with the nucleophilic pyrazoline building block (II).
• R 4 SO 2 N moiety in the compound of general formula (I) is introduced in the last step of the reaction sequence, whereas in all prior art routes this particular moiety was introduced at an earlier stage in the process.
• alkyl denotes a univalent saturated, branched or linear, hydrocarbon chain. Unless otherwise stated, such chains can contain from 1 to 18 carbon atoms.
• alkyl groups are methyl, ethyl, propyl, isopropyl, butyl, isobutyl, sec-butyl, fert-butyl, pentyl, isopentyl, neopentyl, hexyl, isohexyl, heptyl, octyl, nonyl, decyl, undecyl, dodecyl, tridecyl, tetradecyl, pentadecyl, hexadecyl, heptadecyl, octadecyl, etc.
• the same carbon content applies to the parent term 'alkane', and to derivative terms like 'alkoxy'.
• the carbon content of various hydrocarbon containing moieties is indicated by a prefix designating the minimum and maximum number of carbon atoms, i.e., the prefix (C x - y )- defines the number of carbon atoms present from the integer "x" to the integer "y” inclusive.
• '(Ci. 3 )-alkyl' for example, includes methyl, ethyl, n-propyl or isopropyl, and '(Ci.
• alkyl' includes 'methyl, ethyl, n-propyl, isopropyl, n-butyl, sec-butyl, isobutyl or tert-butyl'.
• alkenyl' denotes linear or branched hydrocarbon radicals having one or more carbon-carbon double bonds, such as vinyl, allyl, butenyl, etc., and for example represents (C 2-4 )alkenyl.
• 'Halo' or 'Halogen' refers to chloro, fluoro, bromo or iodo; 'hetero' as in 'heteroalkyl, heteroaromatic', etc. includes containing one or more N, O or S atoms, 'heteroalkyl' includes alkyl groups with heteroatoms in any position, thus including N-bound O-bound or S-bound alkyl groups.
• substituted means that the specified group or moiety bears one or more substituents. Where any group may carry multiple substituents, and a variety of possible substituents can be provided, the substituents are independently selected, and need not to be the same.
• unsubstituted means that the specified group bears no substituents.
• 'Cs- ⁇ -cycloalkyl' includes cyclopropyl, cyclobutyl, cyclopentyl, cyclohexyl, cyclopheptyl or cyclooctyl;
• 'C 5 .i 0 bicycloalkyl group' refers to carbo-bicyclic ring systems including bicyclo[2.2.1 ]heptanyl, bicyclo[3.3.0]octanyl or the bicyclo[3.1.1] heptanyl group;
• amino refers to a nitrogen atom being either terminal, or a linker between two other groups, wherein the group may be a primary, secondary or tertiary (two hydrogen atoms bonded to the nitrogen atom, one hydrogen atom bonded to the nitrogen atom and no hydrogen atoms bonded to the nitrogen atom, respectively) amine.
• sulfinyl and sulfonyl as used herein as part of another group respectively refer to an -SO- or an - SO 2 - group.
• the terms 'compound' or 'compounds' include tautomers, stereoisomers, N-oxides, isotopically-labelled analogues, or pharmacologically acceptable salts, also when not explicitly mentioned.
• the term "leaving group” shall mean a charged or uncharged atom or group leaving during a substitution or displacement reaction.
• the term refers to groups readily displaceable by a nucleophile, such as an amine, a thiol or an alcohol nucleophile.
• Such leaving groups are well known in the art. Examples include, but are not limited to, N- hydroxysuccinimide, N-hydroxybenzotriazole, halides (Br, Cl, I), triflates, mesylates, tosylates, and the like. (For more information on the leaving group concept, see: Michael B. Smith and
• Sepacore chromatographic separations were carried out using Supelco equipment, VersaFLASHTM columns, VersaPakTM silica cartridges, B ⁇ chi UV monitor C-630, B ⁇ chi Pump module C-605, B ⁇ chi fraction collector C-660 and B ⁇ chi pump manager C-615. Melting points were recorded on a B ⁇ chi B-545 melting point apparatus or determined by DSC (differential scanning calorimetry) methods.
• 3,4-diaryl-4,5-dihydro-1 H-pyrazole-1 -carboxamidine derivatives of formula (II) can be obtained via known methods, as described in WO01/70700, WO 03/026648, Lange, J. H. M. et al., J. Med. Chem. 2004, 47, 627.
• the novel synthetic route is given in the scheme below:
• (I) 3,4-Diaryl-4,5-dihydro-(1 H)-pyrazoles of formula (II) can be prepared as described by Grosscurt, et al. (J. Agric. Food Chem. 1979, 27, 406), and can be reacted with an alkylisothiocyanate, or a cycloalkylisothiocyanate, in a (d ⁇ -alcohol such as absolute ethanol, to give a 3,4-diaryl-N- alkyl-4,5-dihydro-(1 H)-pyrazole-1-carbothioamide or 3,4-diaryl-N-cycloalkyl-4,5-dihydro-(1 H)- pyrazole-1 -carbothioamide of formula (III).
• Salts may be obtained using standard procedures well known in the art, for example by mixing a compound of the present invention with a suitable acid, for instance an inorganic acid such as hydrochloric acid, or with an organic acid such as fumaric acid.
• a suitable acid for instance an inorganic acid such as hydrochloric acid, or with an organic acid such as fumaric acid.

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