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Anjani Shah, Ph.D., Conference Director, Cambridge Healthtech Institute, interviews Dr. Nhut Diep of Forest Laboratories on February 19, 2014. Dr. Diep will be speaking during the 7th Annual 'Efficient Process Chemistry' conference taking place May 22-23, 2014 as part of CHI's World Pharma Congress May 21-23 in Boston, MA. Efforts to identify a scalable process for preparing DPP-IV inhibitor compounds (diabetes therapeutic) led to the discovery of several useful transformations, including the asymmetric lithiation-boronation of the Boc-pyrrolidine that provided a single compound; the development of a streamline-telescope coupling reaction and workup which led to a robust crystallization/purification method.