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Buchwald–Hartwig amination: Benzene, 4-bromo-1,2-dimethoxy- → tert-butyl (2R)-4-(3,4-dimethoxyphenyl)-2-propan-2-ylpiperazine-1-carboxylate

36% yield, run at 150 °C, as recorded by experimental reaction archive. The written procedure is below.

verified record, 36% 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

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

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What was in the flask

RoleSpeciesFormulaYield
ReactantBenzene, 4-bromo-1,2-dimethoxy-C₈H₉BrO₂—
Reactant(R)-1-Boc-2-isopropylpiperazineC₁₂H₂₄N₂O₂—
Reagentsodium 2-methylpropan-2-olateC₄H₉NaO—
Catalyst2-(Dicyclohexylphosphino)-2'-(dimethylamino)biphenylC₂₆H₃₆NP—
CatalystBis(dibenzylideneacetone)palladiumC₅₁H₄₂O₃Pd₂—
SolventTolueneC₇H₈—
Producttert-butyl (2R)-4-(3,4-dimethoxyphenyl)-2-propan-2-ylpiperazine-1-carboxylateC₂₀H₃₂N₂O₄36%

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
150 °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

  • 36% of tert-butyl (2R)-4-(3,4-dimethoxyphenyl)-2-propan-2-ylpiperazine-1-carboxylate.

Procedure

Copied from the source record, unedited

21-Apr-09 08:58:54 +0100 4-bromo-1,2-dimethoxybenzene (0.068 mL, 0.46 mmol), (R)-tert-butyl 2-isopropylpiperazine-1-carboxylate (126 mg, 0.55 mmol) and 2-Dicyclohexylphosphino-2'-(N,N-dimethylamino)biphenyl (11.21 mg, 0.03 mmol) and Sodium tert-butoxide (63.9 mg, 0.64 mmol) and Tris(dibenzylideneacetone)dipalladium(0) (21.09 mg, 0.02 mmol) were suspended in toluene (5 mL) and sealed into a microwave tube. The reaction was heated to 150 °C for 20 minutes in the microwave reactor and cooled to RT. LC-MS shows 36% product and 57% SM reaction will be combined with EN02263-47

The source

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  • experimental reaction archive record ord-ca7fdadedf3340de8e255025b11294fe 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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