The development of a continuous manufacturing process for a hydrazine condensation reaction at high temperature is reported. This continuous process represents a safer approach to manufacture 3-phenyl-1H-pyrazol-5-amine at scale and exhibits better impurity control compared to a traditional batch process. A controlled crystallization allowed consistently low levels of residual hydrazine (<20 ppm) in isolated solids for further processing to final drug substance. The scalability and robustness of the continuous process was demonstrated at 3 kg scale with a throughput of 0.5 kg/h.
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