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Buchwald–Hartwig amination: 4-chloro-N-phenylpyridin-2-amine → 4-N-benzyl-2-N-phenylpyridine-2,4-diamine

42% yield, run at 100 °C, as recorded by experimental reaction archive. The written procedure is below.

verified record, 42% 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

CCCCCNCCCNCNCCCCCCCCCCl
Reactants · 1/6
breakingformingbond order changesmapped atom that changes

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What was in the flask

RoleSpeciesFormulaYield
Reactant4-chloro-N-phenylpyridin-2-amineC₁₁H₉ClN₂—
ReactantBenzylamineC₇H₉N—
Reagentsodium 2-methylpropan-2-olateC₄H₉NaO—
CatalystBrettphosC₃₅H₅₃O₂P—
CatalystPalladium (II) acetateC₄H₈O₄Pd—
SolventDimethylacetamideC₄H₉NO—
Product4-N-benzyl-2-N-phenylpyridine-2,4-diamineC₁₈H₁₇N₃41.99%

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
100 °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

  • 42% of 4-N-benzyl-2-N-phenylpyridine-2,4-diamine.

Procedure

Copied from the source record, unedited

Phenylmethanamine (57.6 mg, 0.54 mmol), 4-chloro-N-phenylpyridin-2-amine (100 mg, 0.49 mmol) and sodium 2-methylpropan-2-olate (94 mg, 0.98 mmol) were suspended in DMA (2 mL) and sealed into a microwave tube. Nitrogen was bubbled through the reaction mixture for 5 minutes. Dicyclohexyl(2',4',6'-triisopropyl-3,6-dimethoxy-[1,1'-biphenyl]-2-yl)phosphine (31.5 mg, 0.06 mmol) and diacetoxypalladium (8.78 mg, 0.04 mmol) were added to the reaction mixture and nitrogen was bubbled through the reaction mixture for a further 5 minutes. The reaction was thermally heated to 100 °C for 30 mins under nitrogen and cooled to RT. The reaction mixture was neutralised with HCl and purified by ion exchange chromatography, using a 20 g SCX column. The crude product was purified by preparative HPLC (Waters Sun

The source

This record comes from experimental reaction archive (ord-5536c4f8409a4be1989b2939dc8c1cbe). Open the source and check it against what is on this page.

  • experimental reaction archive record ord-5536c4f8409a4be1989b2939dc8c1cbe 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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