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Buchwald–Hartwig amination: Ethyl 7-bromobenzofuran-2-carboxylate → Ethyl 7-(4-(2-(pyridin-2-yl)ethyl)piperazin-1-yl)benzofuran-2-carboxylate

19% yield, run at 95 °C, as recorded by experimental reaction archive. The written procedure is below.

verified record, 19% 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

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

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What was in the flask

RoleSpeciesFormulaYield
ReactantEthyl 7-bromobenzofuran-2-carboxylateC₁₁H₉BrO₃—
ReactantPiperazine, 2-pyridylethyl-C₁₁H₁₇N₃—
ReagentCesium carbonateCCs₂O₃—
Catalyst2-Dicyclohexylphosphino-2',4',6'-triisoprophylbiphenylC₃₃H₄₉P—
CatalystBis(dibenzylideneacetone)palladiumC₅₁H₄₂O₃Pd₂—
Solvent1,4-DioxaneC₄H₈O₂—
ProductEthyl 7-(4-(2-(pyridin-2-yl)ethyl)piperazin-1-yl)benzofuran-2-carboxylateC₂₂H₂₅N₃O₃18.97%

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
95 °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

  • 19% of Ethyl 7-(4-(2-(pyridin-2-yl)ethyl)piperazin-1-yl)benzofuran-2-carboxylate.

Procedure

Copied from the source record, unedited

The reaction mixture of ethyl 7-bromobenzofuran-2-carboxylate (2.0 g, 7.43 mmol), 1-(2-(pyridin-2-yl)ethyl)piperazine (1.564 g, 8.18 mmol), Tris(dibenzylideneacetone)dipalladium(0) (0.476 g, 0.52 mmol), 2-Dicyclohexylphosphino-2',4',6'-tri-iso-propyl-1,1'-biphenyl (0.496 g, 1.04 mmol) and Cesium carbonate (3.63 g, 11.15 mmol) in dioxane (30 mL) (degassed with argon for 10 min) was heated at 95 °C under argon for 5 h. After cooling, the reaction mixture was filtered and concentrated. The product was purified twice by isco, the first using DCM:MeOH (0-5%) and the second time using DCM:MeOH (0-3%).

The source

This record comes from experimental reaction archive (ord-d491779c6ebc428d97eb810ae5444bf6). Open the source and check it against what is on this page.

  • experimental reaction archive record ord-d491779c6ebc428d97eb810ae5444bf6 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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