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Buchwald–Hartwig amination: 6-bromo-2-methyl-2,3-dihydro-1H-isoindol-1-one → tert-butyl 4-(2-methyl-3-oxo-1H-isoindol-5-yl)piperazine-1-carboxylate

57% yield, run at 60 °C, as recorded by experimental reaction archive. The written procedure is below.

verified record, 57% 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

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

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What was in the flask

RoleSpeciesFormulaYield
Reactant6-bromo-2-methyl-2,3-dihydro-1H-isoindol-1-oneC₉H₈BrNO—
Reactanttert-Butyl piperazine-1-carboxylateC₉H₁₈N₂O₂—
Reagentsodium 2-methylpropan-2-olateC₄H₉NaO—
CatalystBinap, (A+-)-C₄₄H₃₂P₂—
CatalystBis(dibenzylideneacetone)palladiumC₅₁H₄₂O₃Pd₂—
SolventTolueneC₇H₈—
Producttert-butyl 4-(2-methyl-3-oxo-1H-isoindol-5-yl)piperazine-1-carboxylateC₁₈H₂₅N₃O₃57.03%

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
60 °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

  • 57% of tert-butyl 4-(2-methyl-3-oxo-1H-isoindol-5-yl)piperazine-1-carboxylate.

Procedure

Copied from the source record, unedited

In an oven-dried RB flask was added Tris(dibenzylideneacetone)dipalladium(0) (0.046 g, 0.05 mmol) and rac-2,2'-Bis(diphenylphosphino)-1,1'-binaphthyl (0.062 g, 0.10 mmol). The flask was evacuated and back-filled with nitrogen. Anhydrous toluene (3 mL) was added and the mixture was stirred at rt for 10 min to give a purple solution. 6-bromo-2-methylisoindolin-1-one (2.261 g, 10 mmol), 1-Boc-piperazine (1.863 g, 10.00 mmol) and Sodium tert-butoxide (1.714 mL, 14.00 mmol) were added in one portion followed by anhydrous toluene (15 mL). The flask was evacuated and back-filled with nitrogen and the resulting mixture was stirred at 60 °C under a nitrogen atmosphere for 2 days. LCMS shows 10% conversion. Tris(dibenzylideneacetone)dipalladium(0) (0.183 g, 0.20 mmol) and 2-Dicyclohexylphosphino-2',

The source

This record comes from experimental reaction archive (ord-ce627b9c98e74957a0959e5bb6499f88). Open the source and check it against what is on this page.

  • experimental reaction archive record ord-ce627b9c98e74957a0959e5bb6499f88 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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