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Buchwald–Hartwig amination: 1-Bromo-2-chloro-4-fluorobenzene → 1-(2-Chloro-4-fluorophenyl)piperidin-4-one

0% yield, run at 120 °C, as recorded by experimental reaction archive. The written procedure is below.

verified record, 0% yield recorded, Not balanced as written, From experimental reaction archive

Reagents, catalysts and solvents are in the table below.

The atoms, from reactants to products

OCCCNCCCCFCCClCCBr
Reactants · 1/6
breakingformingbond order changesmapped atom that changes

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What was in the flask

RoleSpeciesFormulaYield
Reactant1-Bromo-2-chloro-4-fluorobenzeneC₆H₃BrClF—
Reactant4-PiperidoneC₅H₉NO—
Reagentsodium 2-methylpropan-2-olateC₄H₉NaO—
Catalyst2-Dicyclohexylphosphino-2',4',6'-triisoprophylbiphenylC₃₃H₄₉P—
CatalystPalladium (II) acetateC₄H₈O₄Pd—
SolventTolueneC₇H₈—
Product1-(2-Chloro-4-fluorophenyl)piperidin-4-oneC₁₁H₁₁ClFNO0%

The equation does not balance as written. That is usual for an experimental record: the source listed what it put in and what it measured, not a stoichiometric equation.

Conditions

Temperature
120 °C

Only the dimensions the source stated are listed. Anything absent here was not recorded, and it is not inferred from what the class usually needs.

Yield

  • 0% of 1-(2-Chloro-4-fluorophenyl)piperidin-4-one.

Procedure

Copied from the source record, unedited

To a round bottom flask was added palladium(II) acetate (0.012 g, 0.06 mmol), dicyclohexyl(2',4',6'-triisopropylbiphenyl-2-yl)phosphine (0.026 g, 0.06 mmol), and sodium tert-butoxide (0.213 g, 2.21 mmol). Added 5 mL toluene/t-butanol mix and purged with nitrogen. Added piperidin-4-one (0.15 g, 1.11 mmol), in 3 mL tol/tbuoh (slurry), followed by 1-bromo-2-chloro-4-fluorobenzene (0.255 g, 1.22 mmol), in 2 mL tol/tbuoh. Flushed with additional nitrogen and then heated to 120oC overnight. Let reaction mixture cool to room temperature and filtered through Celite. Rinsed repeatedly with EtOAc and concentrated in vacuo. Purified via ISCO 12g SiO2 column using 0-20% hexanes/ethyl acetate. Fractions 19 and 20 were combined and concentrated to afford a white solid. NMR (I200805922.42) shows a mess

The source

This record comes from experimental reaction archive (ord-5c5d7fac90d14102bcad7fe6bdad56a8). Open the source and check it against what is on this page.

  • experimental reaction archive record ord-5c5d7fac90d14102bcad7fe6bdad56a8 from dataset "750 AstraZeneca ELN dataset" (url: https://chemrxiv.org/engage/chemrxiv/article-details/60c9e3f37792a23bfdb2d471). No atom mapping is provided by the source.

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