Within at otal residence time of 9min, the sodium salt of ciprofloxacin was prepared from simple building blocks via al inear sequence of six chemical reactions in five flow reactors.S equential offline acidifications and filtrations afforded ciprofloxacin and ciprofloxacin hydrochloride.T he overall yield of the eight-step sequence was 60 %. No separation of intermediates was required throughout the synthesis when as ingle acylation reaction was applied to remove the main byproduct, dimethylamine.