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Buchwald–Hartwig amination: 2,4-Dichloropyridine → N-(4-chloro-2-pyridinyl)-4,5-dimethyl-1,3-oxazol-2-amine

15% yield, run at 140 °C, as recorded by experimental reaction archive. The written procedure is below.

verified record, 15% 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

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

Drawn from the record's atom map: which bonds break and which form between the reactants and products the source listed. It shows a change in connectivity, not a simulated trajectory and not a mechanism.

What was in the flask

RoleSpeciesFormulaYield
Reactant2,4-DichloropyridineC₅H₃Cl₂N—
Reactant4,5-Dimethyloxazol-2-amineC₅H₈N₂O—
ReagentCesium carbonateCCs₂O₃—
Catalyst1,1'-(9,9-Dimethyl-9H-xanthene-4,5-diyl)bis(1,1-diphenylphosphine)C₃₉H₃₂OP₂—
CatalystBis(dibenzylideneacetone)palladiumC₅₁H₄₂O₃Pd₂—
Solvent1,4-DioxaneC₄H₈O₂—
ProductN-(4-chloro-2-pyridinyl)-4,5-dimethyl-1,3-oxazol-2-amineC₁₀H₁₀ClN₃O15.2%

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
140 °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

  • 15% of N-(4-chloro-2-pyridinyl)-4,5-dimethyl-1,3-oxazol-2-amine.

Procedure

Copied from the source record, unedited

Objective: To find out which substrates are efficient coupling partners, is there a robust link between how electron poor the substrate is and yield i.e. more electron poor aminooxazoles produce greater yields. Pd2(dba)3 (22.89 mg, 0.025 mmol), 9,9-dimethyl-4,5-bis(diphenylphosphino)xanthene (43.4 mg, 0.075 mmol), 2,4-dichloropyridine (148 mg, 1.00 mmol), cesium carbonate (652 mg, 2.00 mmol) and 4,5-dimethyloxazol-2-amine (112 mg, 1.00 mmol) were added to an oven dried microwave vial, the vial was capped and placed under an inert atmosphere, dioxane (4 mL) was added and the resulting mixture was heated to 140 °C for 1 h by microwave irradiation under a nitrogen atmosphere. The crude product was purified by flash silica chromatography, elution gradient 0 to 30% EtOAc in heptane. Pure frac

The source

This record comes from experimental reaction archive (ord-e66c732566f245d48f208bb758cb3489). Open the source and check it against what is on this page.

  • experimental reaction archive record ord-e66c732566f245d48f208bb758cb3489 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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