A Novel and Practical Synthesis of Mavorixafor

A novel and practical synthesis of mavorixafor (1) is reported. The novelty of this synthetic route is the use of 8-chloro-5,6,7,8-tetrahydroquinoline (9) and 1,4-diaminobutane as the materials, instead of 8-amino-5,6,7,8-tetrahydroquinoline (4) and N,N-diprotected aminobutyraldehyde (6a or 6b). The preparation of (S)-8-(4-aminobutylamino)-5,6,7,8-tetrahydroquinoline (13) by resolution with N-acetyl-l-leucine was first achieved. Then the one-pot synthesis of 1 from 13 involving protection, condensation, and subsequent hydrolysis was successfully developed. In addition, the final product with a satisfactory purity (>99.5%, detected by both achiral and chiral HPLC) was obtained by a simple operation (salification) without column chromatographic purification.