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Buchwald–Hartwig amination: 4-Bromo-2-chlorobenzonitrile → Tert-butyl 4-(3-chloro-4-cyanophenyl)piperazine-1-carboxylate

47% yield, run at 80 °C, as recorded by experimental reaction archive. The written procedure is below.

verified record, 47% 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

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

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What was in the flask

RoleSpeciesFormulaYield
Reactant4-Bromo-2-chlorobenzonitrileC₇H₃BrClN—
Reactanttert-Butyl piperazine-1-carboxylateC₉H₁₈N₂O₂—
ReagentCesium carbonateCCs₂O₃—
CatalystBinap, (A+-)-C₄₄H₃₂P₂—
CatalystPalladium (II) acetateC₄H₈O₄Pd—
SolventTolueneC₇H₈—
ProductTert-butyl 4-(3-chloro-4-cyanophenyl)piperazine-1-carboxylateC₁₆H₂₀ClN₃O₂47.09%

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
80 °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

  • 47% of Tert-butyl 4-(3-chloro-4-cyanophenyl)piperazine-1-carboxylate.

Procedure

Copied from the source record, unedited

In a 250 mL round-bottomed dried flask , diacetoxypalladium (0.036 g, 0.16 mmol) was treated with 2,2'-bis(diphenylphosphino)-1,1'-binaphthyl (0.195 g, 0.31 mmol) under nitrogen in toluene (35 mL). The reaction was heated to 80 °C and was stirred for 10 min. To the flask was then added tert-butyl piperazine-1-carboxylate (0.602 g, 3.23 mmol), cesium carbonate (0.527 g, 1.62 mmol), potassium carbonate (0.447 g, 3.23 mmol) and 1,4,7,10,13,16-hexaoxacyclooctadecane (0.085 g, 0.32 mmol). The reaction was then treated with 4-bromo-2-chlorobenzonitrile (0.7 g, 3.23 mmol) and was allowed to stir at 80°C for 5 h. The mixture was then filtered over celite and celite was washed with heptanes. The mixture was condensed under reduced pressure and the crude material was purified on preparative HPLC MS

The source

This record comes from experimental reaction archive (ord-80eaa5d6e27d4cf78d75715b3843cadc). Open the source and check it against what is on this page.

  • experimental reaction archive record ord-80eaa5d6e27d4cf78d75715b3843cadc 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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