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Buchwald–Hartwig amination: 5-Bromo-2-chloroanisole → Tert-butyl 2-(4-chloro-3-methoxyphenyl)-1,3,3a,4,6,6a-hexahydropyrrolo[3,4-c]pyrrole-5-carboxylate

65% yield, run at 90 °C, as recorded by experimental reaction archive. The written procedure is below.

verified record, 65% 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

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

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What was in the flask

RoleSpeciesFormulaYield
Reactant5-Bromo-2-chloroanisoleC₇H₆BrClO—
ReactantTert-butyl octahydropyrrolo(3,4-c)pyrrole-2-carboxylateC₁₁H₂₀N₂O₂—
Reagentsodium 2-methylpropan-2-olateC₄H₉NaO—
CatalystBinap, (A+-)-C₄₄H₃₂P₂—
CatalystBis(dibenzylideneacetone)palladiumC₅₁H₄₂O₃Pd₂—
SolventTolueneC₇H₈—
ProductTert-butyl 2-(4-chloro-3-methoxyphenyl)-1,3,3a,4,6,6a-hexahydropyrrolo[3,4-c]pyrrole-5-carboxylateC₁₈H₂₅ClN₂O₃64.57%

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
90 °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

  • 65% of Tert-butyl 2-(4-chloro-3-methoxyphenyl)-1,3,3a,4,6,6a-hexahydropyrrolo[3,4-c]pyrrole-5-carboxylate.

Procedure

Copied from the source record, unedited

A mixture of tert-butyl hexahydropyrrolo[3,4-c]pyrrole-2(1H)-carboxylate (205 mg, 0.97 mmol), 5-Bromo-2-chloroanisole (235 mg, 1.06 mmol), Sodium tert- butoxide (130 mg, 1.35 mmol), rac-2,2'-Bis(diphenylphosphino)-1,1'-binaphthyl (30.1 mg, 0.05 mmol) and Tris(dibenzylideneacetone)dipalladium(0) (44.2 mg, 0.05 mmol) in toluene (10 mL) under a nitrogen atmosphere was stirred at 90 °C for 12h. The solution was washed with saturated NaHCO3 solution, brine, dried over sodium sulfate, filtered and concentrated under reduced pressure. The crude material was loaded on a 24g silica gel column and purified on a Teledyne Isco instrument, eluting with 20% to 40% ethyl acetate in heptane to provide tert-butyl 5-(4-chloro-3-methoxyphenyl)hexahydropyrrolo[3,4-c]pyrrole-2(1H)-carboxylate (220 mg, 64.6 %)

The source

This record comes from experimental reaction archive (ord-b0d4d24d68264e0ba39e9d5692455d36). Open the source and check it against what is on this page.

  • experimental reaction archive record ord-b0d4d24d68264e0ba39e9d5692455d36 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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