Buchwald–Hartwig amination: Methyl 4-Bromo-2-chlorobenzoate → Methyl 4-(4-Boc-1-piperazinyl)-2-chlorobenzoate
91% yield, run at 80 °C, as recorded by experimental reaction archive. The written procedure is below.
The atoms, from reactants to products
What was in the flask
| Role | Species | Formula | Yield |
|---|---|---|---|
| Reactant | Methyl 4-Bromo-2-chlorobenzoate | C₈H₆BrClO₂ | |
| Reactant | tert-Butyl piperazine-1-carboxylate | C₉H₁₈N₂O₂ | |
| Reagent | Cesium carbonate | CCs₂O₃ | |
| Catalyst | Binap, (A+-)- | C₄₄H₃₂P₂ | |
| Catalyst | Palladium (II) acetate | C₄H₈O₄Pd | |
| Solvent | Toluene | C₇H₈ | |
| Product | Methyl 4-(4-Boc-1-piperazinyl)-2-chlorobenzoate | C₁₇H₂₃ClN₂O₄ | 90.88% |
Conditions
- Temperature
- 80 °C
Yield
- 91% of Methyl 4-(4-Boc-1-piperazinyl)-2-chlorobenzoate.
Other recorded runs with the same starting material
No other run in the library makes this product. These runs of the same class start from one of the same reactants, which is the nearest company this record has.
- Tert-butyl 4-(7-benzo[b]furanyl)piperazine-1-carboxylate84%
- Tert-butyl 4-(2-methylpyridin-3-yl)piperazine-1-carboxylate83%
- Tert-butyl 4-(4-cyanophenyl)piperazine-1-carboxylate82%
- Tert-butyl 4-(5-(benzyloxy)pyridin-2-YL)piperazine-1-carboxylate69%
- tert-Butyl 4-(2-(ethoxycarbonyl)benzofuran-4-yl)piperazine-1-carboxylate64%
- Tert-butyl 4-(2-methoxyphenyl)piperazine-1-carboxylate62%
- tert-butyl 4-(2-methyl-3-oxo-1H-isoindol-5-yl)piperazine-1-carboxylate57%
- Tert-butyl 4-(4-acetylphenyl)piperazine-1-carboxylate52%
- Tert-butyl 4-(3-chloro-4-cyanophenyl)piperazine-1-carboxylate47%
- tert-Butyl 4-(quinolin-2-yl)piperazine-1-carboxylate46%
- Tert-butyl 4-[6-[(4-methylsulfonylphenyl)methoxy]-3-pyridinyl]piperazine-1-carboxylate43%
- Tert-butyl 4-(pyridin-3-YL)piperazine-1-carboxylate38%
Procedure
Copied from the source record, unedited
To a solution of palladium acetate (18.00 mg, 0.08 mmol) in dry toluene (16 mL) under nitrogen was added BINAP (100 mg, 0.16 mmol). The reaction was heated to 80 °C and stirred for 10 min. To the reaction was then added tert- butyl piperazine-1-carboxylate (299 mg, 1.60 mmol), cesium carbonate (261 mg, 0.80 mmol), potassium carbonate (222 mg, 1.60 mmol), 18-crown-6 (42.4 mg, 0.16 mmol) and methyl 4-bromo-2-chlorobenzoate (400 mg, 1.60 mmol). The reaction was stirred at 80°C overnight, filtered through celite and washed with small amounts of DCM. The filtrate was concentrated under reduced pressure and purified by flash chromatography on silica gel, eluting with mixtures of EtOAc and heptane, to afford tert-butyl 4-(3-chloro-4-(methoxycarbonyl)phenyl)piperazine-1-carboxylate (517 mg, 91 %)
The source
This record comes from experimental reaction archive (ord-879a784e2da64b7f993840feec5d14ac). Open the source and check it against what is on this page.
experimental reaction archive record ord-879a784e2da64b7f993840feec5d14ac 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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