Pharmaceutical Process Chemistry for Synthesis: Rethinking the Routes to Scale-Up

This book presents detailed discussions of the published process chemistry of the ten top-selling small molecule drugs in the US in 2007, information which is usually carefully protected by the current and future manufacturers. The author identifies methodology for manufacturing these blockbuster drugs most efficiently and to highlight methodology and strategies which might be used to expedite the manufacturing of the blockbusters of the future.

The content of each chapter reflects the range of tasks assigned to process chemists whose role on a process research and development team may be early route selection in one project or late troubleshooting of a difficult crystallization to produce a target which filters well and meets crystal size and purity specifications in another.