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Buchwald–Hartwig amination: 2-Bromo-4-chlorobenzonitrile → 4-Chloro-2-(piperazin-1-yl)benzonitrile

0% yield, run at 90 °C, as recorded by experimental reaction archive. The written procedure is below.

verified record, 0% 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

NCCCCCClCCNCCNCCBrHHHHHHHHHH
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-Bromo-4-chlorobenzonitrileC₇H₃BrClN—
ReactantPiperazineC₄H₁₀N₂—
ReagentCesium carbonateCCs₂O₃—
CatalystBinap, (A+-)-C₄₄H₃₂P₂—
CatalystBis(dibenzylideneacetone)palladiumC₅₁H₄₂O₃Pd₂—
Solvent1,4-DioxaneC₄H₈O₂—
Product4-Chloro-2-(piperazin-1-yl)benzonitrileC₁₁H₁₂ClN₃0%

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
90 °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

  • 0% of 4-Chloro-2-(piperazin-1-yl)benzonitrile.

Procedure

Copied from the source record, unedited

Tris(dibenzylideneacetone)dipalladium (0) (43.4 mg, 0.05 mmol) and rac-2,2'-Bis(diphenylphosphino)-1,1'-binaphthyl (59.0 mg, 0.09 mmol) were added to a mixture of 2-bromo-4-chlorobenzonitrile (205 mg, 0.95 mmol), Cesium carbonate (463 mg, 1.42 mmol) and Piperazine (163 mg, 1.89 mmol) in dioxane (3 mL). Reaction vessel was placed in an oil bath set to 90 °C 2.45pm. LCMS o/n shows large product peak (222). Cooled, filtered through a silica plug, washing with EtOAc until filtrate is clear. Crude NMR is very messy, target deprioritized. Discarded.

The source

This record comes from experimental reaction archive (ord-124e8e40d3e54042af531dbb1d8d85d1). Open the source and check it against what is on this page.

  • experimental reaction archive record ord-124e8e40d3e54042af531dbb1d8d85d1 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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