摘要 |
Disclosed is a process for synthesizing 3-[N-phenylacetylaminopiperidine]-2,6-dion, which process comprises the steps of providing a quantity of L-glutamine, providing a quantity of phenylacetyl halide, mixing together the L-glutamine and phenylacetyl halide in a weakly alkaline aqueous solution to provide an aqueous reaction mixture, adjusting the reaction mixture to a pH ranging from about 2 to about 3, and recovering from the reaction mixture the product 3-[N-phenylacetylamino-piperidine]-2,6-dion, and when desired preparing the pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof.
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