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SUBMITTER: Lerchen A
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7839499 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Dec
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Angewandte Chemie (International ed. in English) 20201123 51
(-)-Finerenone is a nonsteroidal mineralocorticoid receptor antagonist currently in phase III clinical trials for the treatment of chronic kidney disease in type 2 diabetes. It contains an unusual dihydronaphthyridine core. We report a 6-step synthesis of (-)-finerenone, which features an enantioselective partial transfer hydrogenation of a naphthyridine using a chiral phosphoric acid catalyst with a Hantzsch ester. The process is complicated by the fact that the naphthyridine exists as a mixtur ...[more]