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

48% yield, run at 100 °C, as recorded by experimental reaction archive. The written procedure is below. One of 5 recorded runs making this product; all of them are compared below.

verified record, 48% 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—
Catalyst1,1'-(9,9-Dimethyl-9H-xanthene-4,5-diyl)bis(1,1-diphenylphosphine)C₃₉H₃₂OP₂—
CatalystBis(dibenzylideneacetone)palladiumC₅₁H₄₂O₃Pd₂—
Solvent1,4-DioxaneC₄H₈O₂—
ProductEthyl 2-[(4-chloro-2-pyridinyl)amino]-1,3-oxazole-5-carboxylateC₁₁H₁₀ClN₃O₃47.86%

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

  • 48% of Ethyl 2-[(4-chloro-2-pyridinyl)amino]-1,3-oxazole-5-carboxylate.

Every recorded run making this product

5 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.

CatalystReagentsSolventTemp.TimeYield
1,1'-(9,9-Dimethyl-9H-xanthene-4,5-diyl)bis(1,1-diphenylphosphine); Bis(dibenzylideneacetone)palladiumCesium carbonate1,4-Dioxane100 °C—48% (this run)
1,1'-(9,9-Dimethyl-9H-xanthene-4,5-diyl)bis(1,1-diphenylphosphine); Bis(dibenzylideneacetone)palladiumPotassium CarbonateAnisole90 °C—0%
Di-tert-butyl(2',4',6'-tris(propan-2-yl)-(1,1'-biphenyl)-2-yl)phosphane; Bis(dibenzylideneacetone)palladiumCesium carbonate1,4-Dioxane160 °C—0%
Di-tert-butyl(2',4',6'-triisopropyl-3,6-dimethoxy-(1,1'-biphenyl)-2-yl)phosphine; Bis(dibenzylideneacetone)palladiumCesium carbonate1,4-Dioxane160 °C—0%
Bis(3,5-bis(trifluoromethyl)phenyl)(3,6-dimethoxy-2',4',6'-tri(propan-2-yl)(1,1'-biphenyl)-2-yl)phosphane; Bis(dibenzylideneacetone)palladiumCesium carbonate1,4-Dioxane160 °C—0%

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

Objective: Comparison of the reactivity of 2-aminooxazole and ester substituted 2-aminooxazole under identical reaction conditions. To an oven-dried round bottomed flask 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), (9,9-dimethyl-9H-xanthene-4,5-diyl)bis(diphenylphosphine) (43.4 mg, 0.07 mmol) and 2,4-dichloropyridine (0.108 mL, 1.00 mmol). A reflux condenser was fitted and the vessel was purged with nitrogen. dioxane (2 mL)/DMSO (2 mL) (degassed) was added and the reaction mixture was heated to 100 °C for 16 h. The crude product was purified by ion exchange chromatography, using an SCX column. The desired product was eluted from the column using 7M NH3/MeOH and pure

The source

This record comes from experimental reaction archive (ord-345c2935b6ec4f748049eeb832f405b7). Open the source and check it against what is on this page.

  • experimental reaction archive record ord-345c2935b6ec4f748049eeb832f405b7 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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