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Buchwald–Hartwig amination: 6-Chloropyrazine-2-carbonitrile → Ethyl 2-[(6-cyanopyrazin-2-yl)amino]-1,3-oxazole-5-carboxylate

47% yield, run at 160 °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

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

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What was in the flask

RoleSpeciesFormulaYield
Reactant6-Chloropyrazine-2-carbonitrileC₅H₂ClN₃—
ReactantEthyl 2-amino-1,3-oxazole-5-carboxylateC₆H₈N₂O₃—
ReagentCesium carbonateCCs₂O₃—
Catalyst1,1'-(9,9-Dimethyl-9H-xanthene-4,5-diyl)bis(1,1-diphenylphosphine)C₃₉H₃₂OP₂—
CatalystBis(dibenzylideneacetone)palladiumC₅₁H₄₂O₃Pd₂—
Solvent1,4-DioxaneC₄H₈O₂—
ProductEthyl 2-[(6-cyanopyrazin-2-yl)amino]-1,3-oxazole-5-carboxylateC₁₁H₉N₅O₃46.72%

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
160 °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 Ethyl 2-[(6-cyanopyrazin-2-yl)amino]-1,3-oxazole-5-carboxylate.

Procedure

Copied from the source record, unedited

Objective: Test of scope in the coupling of ester substituted aminooxazole To an oven-dried microwave vial was added ethyl 2-aminooxazole-5-carboxylate (156 mg, 1.00 mmol), 6-chloropyrazine-2-carbonitrile (139 mg, 1.00 mmol), cesium carbonate (651 mg, 2.00 mmol), TRIS(DIBENZYLIDENEACETONE)DIPALLADIUM(0) (22.87 mg, 0.02 mmol) and (9,9-dimethyl-9H-xanthene-4,5-diyl)bis(diphenylphosphine) (43.4 mg, 0.075 mmol) and the vial was capped and purged with nitrogen. dioxane (4 mL) (degassed) was added and the reaction mixture was heated to 160 °C for 1 h under microwave irradiation. DCM (20 mL) was added to the crude reaction mixture together with silica (2 g) and the solvent was removed under reduced pressure. The resulting residue was added to a dry-load tube prior to chromatography.The crude pr

The source

This record comes from experimental reaction archive (ord-0b0035404bff4099a5e08c9ac05b0329). Open the source and check it against what is on this page.

  • experimental reaction archive record ord-0b0035404bff4099a5e08c9ac05b0329 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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