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Buchwald–Hartwig amination: 2-Chloro-5-nitropyridine → Ethyl 2-[(5-nitro-2-pyridinyl)amino]-1,3-oxazole-5-carboxylate

86% yield, run at 160 °C, as recorded by experimental reaction archive. The written procedure is below.

verified record, 86% 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

CCOCOCCNCNCCCCNOOCNOCl
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-Chloro-5-nitropyridineC₅H₃ClN₂O₂—
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-[(5-nitro-2-pyridinyl)amino]-1,3-oxazole-5-carboxylateC₁₁H₁₀N₄O₅85.62%

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

  • 86% of Ethyl 2-[(5-nitro-2-pyridinyl)amino]-1,3-oxazole-5-carboxylate.

Procedure

Copied from the source record, unedited

Objective: Test of substrate scope in couple of ester substituted aminooxazole To an oven-dried microwave vial was added ethyl 2-aminooxazole-5-carboxylate (156 mg, 1.00 mmol), cesium carbonate (651 mg, 2.00 mmol), TRIS(DIBENZYLIDENEACETONE)DIPALLADIUM(0) (22.87 mg, 0.02 mmol) 2-chloro-5-nitropyridine (158 mg, 1.00 mmol) and (9,9-dimethyl-9H-xanthene-4,5-diyl)bis(diphenylphosphine) (43.4 mg, 0.07 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. LCMS of the crude reaction mixture indicated that the desired product had been formed while only a trace of the amine starting material remained. DCM (20 mL) was added to the crude reaction mixture together with silica (2

The source

This record comes from experimental reaction archive (ord-99625d03cee6403dbb604294d8ab8a9b). Open the source and check it against what is on this page.

  • experimental reaction archive record ord-99625d03cee6403dbb604294d8ab8a9b 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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