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Buchwald–Hartwig amination: 1-Bromo-4-(methylsulphonyl)benzene → 6-chloro-N-(4-methylsulfonylphenyl)pyrazin-2-amine

70% yield, run at 85 °C, as recorded by experimental reaction archive. The written procedure is below.

verified record, 70% 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

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

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What was in the flask

RoleSpeciesFormulaYield
Reactant1-Bromo-4-(methylsulphonyl)benzeneC₇H₇BrO₂S—
Reactant2-Amino-6-ChloropyrazineC₄H₄ClN₃—
ReagentCesium carbonateCCs₂O₃—
Catalyst1,1'-(9,9-Dimethyl-9H-xanthene-4,5-diyl)bis(1,1-diphenylphosphine)C₃₉H₃₂OP₂—
CatalystPalladium (II) acetateC₄H₈O₄Pd—
Solvent1,4-DioxaneC₄H₈O₂—
Product6-chloro-N-(4-methylsulfonylphenyl)pyrazin-2-amineC₁₁H₁₀ClN₃O₂S70.39%

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
85 °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

  • 70% of 6-chloro-N-(4-methylsulfonylphenyl)pyrazin-2-amine.

Other recorded runs with the same starting material

No other run in the library makes this product. These runs of the same class start from one of the same reactants, which is the nearest company this record has.

Procedure

Copied from the source record, unedited

1-bromo-4-(methylsulfonyl)benzene (18.6 g, 79.12 mmol) then cesium carbonate (33.5 g, 102.85 mmol) were successively added to a solution of 6-chloropyrazin-2-amine (10.25 g, 79.12 mmol) in 1,4-dioxane (300 ml). The mixture was purged with nitrogen, then (9,9-dimethyl-9H-xanthene-4,5-diyl)bis(diphenylphosphine) (2.75 g, 4.75 mmol) and diacetoxypalladium (0.533 g, 2.37 mmol) were added, the mixture was purged with nitrogen then heated to 85°C for 3 hours. After cooling the mixture was diluted with ethylacetate (300 mL), filtered, the solid washed with ethyl acetate (2x100 mL). Filtrate was washed with water (500 mL) => _emulsion, 100 mL of brine were added to help separation of layers._ Organics were washed with brine and dried over MgSO4. Crude product (28g) was purified by flash chromatogr

The source

This record comes from experimental reaction archive (ord-03f2f90229d7474393efca5188bac2c5). Open the source and check it against what is on this page.

  • experimental reaction archive record ord-03f2f90229d7474393efca5188bac2c5 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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