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Buchwald–Hartwig amination: 4-Bromo-2-nitroanisole → 1-[4-(4-Methoxy-3-nitro-phenyl)-piperazin-1-yl]ethanone

30% yield, run at 100 °C, as recorded by experimental reaction archive. The written procedure is below.

verified record, 30% 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

COCCCCNCCNCCOCCCCNOOBr
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
Reactant4-Bromo-2-nitroanisoleC₇H₆BrNO₃—
Reactant1-AcetylpiperazineC₆H₁₂N₂O—
ReagentCesium carbonateCCs₂O₃—
Catalyst1,1'-(9,9-Dimethyl-9H-xanthene-4,5-diyl)bis(1,1-diphenylphosphine)C₃₉H₃₂OP₂—
CatalystPalladium (II) acetateC₄H₈O₄Pd—
Solvent1,4-DioxaneC₄H₈O₂—
Product1-[4-(4-Methoxy-3-nitro-phenyl)-piperazin-1-yl]ethanoneC₁₃H₁₇N₃O₄29.91%

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
100 °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

  • 30% of 1-[4-(4-Methoxy-3-nitro-phenyl)-piperazin-1-yl]ethanone.

Other recorded runs with the same starting material

Procedure

Copied from the source record, unedited

4-bromo-1-methoxy-2-nitrobenzene (30 g, 129.29 mmol), 1-(piperazin-1-yl)ethanone (16.57 g, 129.29 mmol), cesium carbonate (84 g, 258.59 mmol),diacetoxypalladium (2.322 g, 10.34 mmol) and (9,9-dimethyl-9H-xanthene-4,5-diyl)bis(diphenylphosphine) (8.98 g, 15.52 mmol) in dioxane (200 mL) were degazed with nitrogen and stirred at 100°C for 1 hour. The reaction mixture was allowed to cool to room temperature, water (1000mL) was added and mixture was filtered on celite. The aq. layer was extracted with CH2Cl2 (2X500mL). The organic layer was dried on MgSO4, filtered and concentrated to dryness to afford the crude product. This product was purified by flash chromatography on silica gel eluting with ethyl acetate - methanol (92-8), the solvents were evaporated to dryness to afford 1-(4-(4-meth

The source

This record comes from experimental reaction archive (ord-8b6e9d49ac804667b43344fcaf4ab862). Open the source and check it against what is on this page.

  • experimental reaction archive record ord-8b6e9d49ac804667b43344fcaf4ab862 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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