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Buchwald–Hartwig amination: Methyl 3-bromo-4-iodobenzoate → Methyl 3-bromo-4-morpholinobenzoate

32% yield, run at 110 °C, as recorded by experimental reaction archive. The written procedure is below.

verified record, 32% 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

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

Drawn from the record's atom map: which bonds break and which form between the reactants and products the source listed. It shows a change in connectivity, not a simulated trajectory and not a mechanism.

What was in the flask

RoleSpeciesFormulaYield
ReactantMethyl 3-bromo-4-iodobenzoateC₈H₆BrIO₂—
ReactantMorpholineC₄H₉NO—
ReagentCesium carbonateCCs₂O₃—
CatalystBinap, (A+-)-C₄₄H₃₂P₂—
CatalystPalladium (II) acetateC₄H₈O₄Pd—
Solvent1,2-DimethoxyethaneC₄H₁₀O₂—
ProductMethyl 3-bromo-4-morpholinobenzoateC₁₂H₁₄BrNO₃32.45%

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
110 °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

  • 32% of Methyl 3-bromo-4-morpholinobenzoate.

Procedure

Copied from the source record, unedited

To a solution of methyl 3-bromo-4-iodobenzoate (1.981 g, 5.81 mmol) in DME (10 mL) were morpholine (0.559 mL, 6.39 mmol), rac-2,2'-Bis(diphenylphosphino)-1,1'-binaphthyl (0.362 g, 0.58 mmol), Palladium acetate (0.130 g, 0.58 mmol) and CESIUM CARBONATE (3.79 g, 11.62 mmol) added. The mixture was heated in the microwave oven for 12h at 110°C. The solids were filtered off through celite, the solvent was evaporated and the crude product was added to a silica gel column, 0-30% EtOAc in heptane yielding methyl 3-bromo-4-morpholinobenzoate (0.566 g, 32.5 %)

The source

This record comes from experimental reaction archive (ord-41816b2f53f7429c8faade84ae4a9bb3). Open the source and check it against what is on this page.

  • experimental reaction archive record ord-41816b2f53f7429c8faade84ae4a9bb3 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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