Continuous and convergent access to vicinyl amino alcohols

Five active pharmaceutical ingredients (APIs) containing the vicinyl amino alcohol moiety were synthesized using a convergent chemical assembly system. The continuous system is composed of four flow reaction modules: biphasic oxidation, Corey-Chaykovsky epoxidation, phenol alkylation, and epoxide aminolysis. Judicious choice of reagents and module order allowed for two classes of [small beta]-amino alcohols, aryl and aryloxy, to be synthesized in good (27-69%) overall yields