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Buchwald–Hartwig amination: N-(5-Bromopyrazin-2-YL)acetamide → N-[5-(4-methylpiperazin-1-yl)pyrazin-2-yl]acetamide

80% yield, run at 120 °C, as recorded by experimental reaction archive. The written procedure is below.

verified record, 80% 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

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

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What was in the flask

RoleSpeciesFormulaYield
ReactantN-(5-Bromopyrazin-2-YL)acetamideC₆H₆BrN₃O—
Reactant1-MethylpiperazineC₅H₁₂N₂—
Reagentpotassium 2-methylpropan-2-olateC₄H₉KO—
CatalystTris(1,1-dimethylethyl)phosphineC₁₂H₂₇P—
CatalystBis(dibenzylideneacetone)palladiumC₅₁H₄₂O₃Pd₂—
SolventDimethylformamideC₃H₇NO—
ProductN-[5-(4-methylpiperazin-1-yl)pyrazin-2-yl]acetamideC₁₁H₁₇N₅O79.51%

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

  • 80% of N-[5-(4-methylpiperazin-1-yl)pyrazin-2-yl]acetamide.

Procedure

Copied from the source record, unedited

1-methylpiperazine (2.318 g, 23.14 mmol), N-(5-bromopyrazin-2-yl)acetamide (1 g, 4.63 mmol), tri-tert-butylphosphine (1.873 g, 9.26 mmol), tris(dibenzylideneacetone)dipalladium (0.085 g, 0.09 mmol) and potassium 2-methylpropan-2-olate (1.039 g, 9.26 mmol) were suspended in DMF (9.26 ml) and sealed into a microwave tube. The reaction was heated to 120 °C for 40 minutes in the microwave reactor and cooled to RT. The mixture was diluted with methanol and acidified with HCl, then the solution was purified by ion exchange chromatography, using an SCX column. The desired product was eluted from the column using 7M NH3/MeOH and pure fractions were evaporated to dryness to afford N-(5-(4-methylpiperazin-1-yl)pyrazin-2-yl)acetamide (0.866 g, 80 %) as a dark oil. Used without further purification.

The source

This record comes from experimental reaction archive (ord-96727602adb24b28af9c737e24f7315c). Open the source and check it against what is on this page.

  • experimental reaction archive record ord-96727602adb24b28af9c737e24f7315c 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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