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Buchwald–Hartwig amination: Methyl 3,5-Dibromobenzoate → Methyl 3-anilino-5-bromobenzoate

0% yield, run at 110 °C, as recorded by experimental reaction archive. The written procedure is below. One of 2 recorded runs making this product; all of them are compared 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

COCOCCCBrCCNCCCCCCCBr
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
ReactantMethyl 3,5-DibromobenzoateC₈H₆Br₂O₂—
ReactantAnilineC₆H₇N—
ReagentCesium carbonateCCs₂O₃—
Catalyst1,1'-(9,9-Dimethyl-9H-xanthene-4,5-diyl)bis(1,1-diphenylphosphine)C₃₉H₃₂OP₂—
CatalystPalladium (II) acetateC₄H₈O₄Pd—
SolventTolueneC₇H₈—
ProductMethyl 3-anilino-5-bromobenzoateC₁₄H₁₂BrNO₂0%

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
110 °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 Methyl 3-anilino-5-bromobenzoate.

Every recorded run making this product

2 runs of this class made the same product and differed in what else was in the flask. They are listed from the highest yield down, with this page's run marked.

ReactantsCatalystReagentsSolventTemp.TimeYield
Methyl 3-bromo-5-iodobenzoate; AnilineBinap, (A+-)-; Palladium (II) acetateCesium carbonateToluene110 °C—41%
Methyl 3,5-Dibromobenzoate; Aniline1,1'-(9,9-Dimethyl-9H-xanthene-4,5-diyl)bis(1,1-diphenylphosphine); Palladium (II) acetateCesium carbonateToluene110 °C—0% (this run)

Every value is as the source recorded it. A run with no yield was reported without one, and nothing here is averaged, modelled or filled in.

Procedure

Copied from the source record, unedited

aniline (0.380 g, 4.08 mmol), methyl 3,5-dibromobenzoate (1.000 g, 3.40 mmol), Pd(OAc)2 (0.076 g, 0.34 mmol), (9,9-dimethyl-9H-xanthene-4,5-diyl)bis(diphenylphosphine) (0.295 g, 0.51 mmol) and CESIUM CARBONATE (1.663 g, 5.10 mmol) were stirred in toluene (10 mL) and degassed with nitrogen for 15 minutes. The mixture was then heated at 110 °C under nitrogen for 24 hours. No evidence of any significant amount of product (ester or acid) therfore abandaned.

The source

This record comes from experimental reaction archive (ord-c6d710180f5249588ab02dc546a2ae67). Open the source and check it against what is on this page.

  • experimental reaction archive record ord-c6d710180f5249588ab02dc546a2ae67 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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How to read this record

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