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

0% yield, run at 160 °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

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—
CatalystBis(3,5-bis(trifluoromethyl)phenyl)(3,6-dimethoxy-2',4',6'-tri(propan-2-yl)(1,1'-biphenyl)-2-yl)phosphaneC₃₉H₃₇F₁₂O₂P—
CatalystBis(dibenzylideneacetone)palladiumC₅₁H₄₂O₃Pd₂—
Solvent1,4-DioxaneC₄H₈O₂—
ProductEthyl 2-[(4-chloro-2-pyridinyl)amino]-1,3-oxazole-5-carboxylateC₁₁H₁₀ClN₃O₃0%

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

  • 0% of Ethyl 2-[(4-chloro-2-pyridinyl)amino]-1,3-oxazole-5-carboxylate.

Procedure

Copied from the source record, unedited

Objective: Attempt to synthesise the 4-substituted product using jackiephos as ligand. To an oven-dried microwave vial was added ethyl 2-aminooxazole-5-carboxylate (156 mg, 1.00 mmol), 2,4-dichloropyridine (0.108 mL, 1.00 mmol), cesium carbonate (651 mg, 2.00 mmol), TRIS(DIBENZYLIDENEACETONE)DIPALLADIUM(0) (22.87 mg, 0.02 mmol) and bis(3,5-bis(trifluoromethyl)phenyl)(2',4',6'-triisopropyl-3,6-dimethoxybiphenyl-2-yl)phosphine (80 mg, 0.10 mmol) and the vial was capped and purged with nitrogen. dioxane (4 mL) (degassed) was added and the reaction mixture was heated to 160 °C for 1 h under microwave irradiation. The reaction mixture was heated to 160°C for a further 3 h due to incomplete conversion. DCM (10 mL) was added to the crude reaction mixture together with silica (2 g). The solvent

The source

This record comes from experimental reaction archive (ord-0e2b144c96fd4ac8aced468951db5ce4). Open the source and check it against what is on this page.

  • experimental reaction archive record ord-0e2b144c96fd4ac8aced468951db5ce4 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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