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Buchwald–Hartwig amination: 2,4-Dichloropyridine → Ethyl 2-[(4-chloro-2-pyridinyl)amino]-1,3-oxazole-5-carboxylate

95% yield, run at 160 °C, as recorded by experimental reaction archive. The written procedure is below.

verified record, 95% 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

CCOCOCCNCNCCCClCCNOCl
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
Reactant2,4-DichloropyridineC₅H₃Cl₂N—
ReactantEthyl 2-amino-1,3-oxazole-5-carboxylateC₆H₈N₂O₃—
ReagentCesium carbonateCCs₂O₃—
Catalyst1,1'-(9,9-Dimethyl-9H-xanthene-4,5-diyl)bis(1,1-diphenylphosphine)C₃₉H₃₂OP₂—
CatalystBis(dibenzylideneacetone)palladiumC₅₁H₄₂O₃Pd₂—
Solvent1,4-DioxaneC₄H₈O₂—
ProductEthyl 2-[(4-chloro-2-pyridinyl)amino]-1,3-oxazole-5-carboxylateC₁₁H₁₀ClN₃O₃95.3%

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
160 °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

  • 95% of Ethyl 2-[(4-chloro-2-pyridinyl)amino]-1,3-oxazole-5-carboxylate.

Procedure

Copied from the source record, unedited

Objective: To make the coupled product on a larger scale for hydrolysis/decarboxylation Pd2(dba)3 (80 mg, 0.09 mmol), 9,9-dimethyl-4,5-bis(diphenylphosphino)xanthene (152 mg, 0.26 mmol), 2,4-dichloropyridine (0.378 mL, 3.50 mmol), cesium carbonate (2279 mg, 6.99 mmol) and ethyl 2-aminooxazole-5-carboxylate (546 mg, 3.50 mmol) were added to an oven dried microwave vial and the vial was capped and placed under an inert atmosphere, dioxane (18 mL) was added and the resulting mixture was heated to 160 °C for 1 h by microwave irradiation under a nitrogen atmosphere. The crude product was purified by flash silica chromatography, elution gradient 0 to 3% MeOH (7 N ammonia) in DCM. Pure fractions were evaporated to dryness to afford ethyl 2-(4-chloropyridin-2-ylamino)oxazole-5-carboxylate (892 m

The source

This record comes from experimental reaction archive (ord-5d8d88656735435b992c60c9f2e9cc2e). Open the source and check it against what is on this page.

  • experimental reaction archive record ord-5d8d88656735435b992c60c9f2e9cc2e 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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