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Buchwald–Hartwig amination: 2,4-Dichloropyridine → 4-chloro-N-(2-methylpyrazol-3-yl)pyridin-2-amine

50% yield, run at 105 °C, as recorded by experimental reaction archive. The written procedure is below.

verified record, 50% 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

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

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What was in the flask

RoleSpeciesFormulaYield
Reactant2,4-DichloropyridineC₅H₃Cl₂N—
Reactant2-Methyl-2H-pyrazol-3-ylamineC₄H₇N₃—
ReagentCesium carbonateCCs₂O₃—
Catalyst1,1'-(9,9-Dimethyl-9H-xanthene-4,5-diyl)bis(1,1-diphenylphosphine)C₃₉H₃₂OP₂—
CatalystBis(dibenzylideneacetone)palladiumC₅₁H₄₂O₃Pd₂—
Solvent1,4-DioxaneC₄H₈O₂—
Product4-chloro-N-(2-methylpyrazol-3-yl)pyridin-2-amineC₉H₉ClN₄50.36%

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
105 °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

  • 50% of 4-chloro-N-(2-methylpyrazol-3-yl)pyridin-2-amine.

Procedure

Copied from the source record, unedited

TRIS(DIBENZYLIDENEACETONE)DIPALLADIUM(0) (251 mg, 0.27 mmol) was [AP-added] to 2,4-dichloropyridine (1000mg, 6.76 mmol), 1-methyl-1H-pyrazol-5-amine (722 mg, 7.43 mmol), cesium carbonate (3302 mg, 10.14 mmol) and (9,9-dimethyl-9H-xanthene-4,5-diyl)bis(diphenylphosphine) (461 mg, 0.80 mmol) in 1,4-dioxane (75 mL) warmed to 105ºC over a period of 21 hours under nitrogen. The reaction mixture was evaporated to dryness and redissolved in DCM (50 mL), and sequentially with water (25 mL). The organic layer was filtered using phase separating paper and evaporated to afford crude product. The crude product was purified by flash silica chromatography, elution gradient 0 to 3% MeOH in DCM. Pure fractions were evaporated to dryness to afford 4-chloro-N-(1-methyl-1H-pyrazol-5-yl)pyridin-2-amine (710

The source

This record comes from experimental reaction archive (ord-90d260fec9dd4d62a1593e5cdff9b43a). Open the source and check it against what is on this page.

  • experimental reaction archive record ord-90d260fec9dd4d62a1593e5cdff9b43a 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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