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Buchwald–Hartwig amination: 2,4-Dichloropyridine → N-(4-chloro-2-pyridinyl)-4,5-dimethyl-1,3-oxazol-2-amine

15% yield, run at 140 °C, as recorded by experimental reaction archive. The written procedure is below.

verified record, 15% 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

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

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What was in the flask

RoleSpeciesFormulaYield
Reactant2,4-DichloropyridineC₅H₃Cl₂N—
Reactant4,5-Dimethyloxazol-2-amineC₅H₈N₂O—
ReagentCesium carbonateCCs₂O₃—
Catalyst1,1'-(9,9-Dimethyl-9H-xanthene-4,5-diyl)bis(1,1-diphenylphosphine)C₃₉H₃₂OP₂—
CatalystBis(dibenzylideneacetone)palladiumC₅₁H₄₂O₃Pd₂—
Solvent1,4-DioxaneC₄H₈O₂—
ProductN-(4-chloro-2-pyridinyl)-4,5-dimethyl-1,3-oxazol-2-amineC₁₀H₁₀ClN₃O15.2%

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
140 °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

  • 15% of N-(4-chloro-2-pyridinyl)-4,5-dimethyl-1,3-oxazol-2-amine.

Procedure

Copied from the source record, unedited

Objective: Repeat of experiment in an attempt to improve isolated yield using different normal phase eluent system (isolation was problematic for ). Pd2(dba)3 (22.89 mg, 0.025 mmol), 9,9-dimethyl-4,5-bis(diphenylphosphino)xanthene (43.4 mg, 0.075 mmol), 2,4-dichloropyridine (148 mg, 1.00 mmol), cesium carbonate (652 mg, 2.00 mmol) and 4,5-dimethyloxazol-2-amine (112 mg, 1.00 mmol) were added to an oven dried microwave vial, the vial was capped and placed under an inert atmosphere, dioxane (4 mL) was added and the resulting mixture was heated to 140 °C for 1 h by microwave irradiation under a nitrogen atmosphere. The crude product was purified by flash silica chromatography, elution gradient 0 to 3% methanolic ammmonia (7 M) in DCM. Pure fractions were evaporated to dryness to afford P1

The source

This record comes from experimental reaction archive (ord-b88a57a3139142d0b67529e7ea94eb7c). Open the source and check it against what is on this page.

  • experimental reaction archive record ord-b88a57a3139142d0b67529e7ea94eb7c 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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