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Buchwald–Hartwig amination: 2-Bromo-N,N-dimethylaniline → Tert-butyl 4-[2-(dimethylamino)phenyl]piperazine-1-carboxylate

32% yield, run at 100 °C, as recorded by experimental reaction archive. The written procedure is below.

verified record, 32% 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

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

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What was in the flask

RoleSpeciesFormulaYield
Reactant2-Bromo-N,N-dimethylanilineC₈H₁₀BrN—
Reactanttert-Butyl piperazine-1-carboxylateC₉H₁₈N₂O₂—
Reagentsodium 2-methylpropan-2-olateC₄H₉NaO—
Catalyst2-Dicyclohexylphosphino-2',6'-diisopropoxybiphenylC₃₀H₄₃O₂P—
CatalystPalladium (II) acetateC₄H₈O₄Pd—
SolventTolueneC₇H₈—
ProductTert-butyl 4-[2-(dimethylamino)phenyl]piperazine-1-carboxylateC₁₇H₂₇N₃O₂31.99%

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

  • 32% of Tert-butyl 4-[2-(dimethylamino)phenyl]piperazine-1-carboxylate.

Procedure

Copied from the source record, unedited

Palladium (II) acetate (67.3 mg, 0.30 mmol) and 2-dicyclohexylphosphino-2',6'-di-i-propoxy-1,1'-biphenyl (280 mg, 0.60 mmol) were dissolved in toluene (7 mL) and purged with nitrogen. The mixture was warmed to 50°C for 15 mins. In a separate vessel, were mixed 2-bromo-N,N-dimethylaniline (600 mg, 3.00 mmol), tert-butyl piperazine-1-carboxylate (559 mg, 3.00 mmol) and sodium-t- butoxide (432 mg, 4.50 mmol) in toluene (8 mL). The mixture was degassed and purged with nitrogen. The catalyst solution was added and the resulting mixture heated at 100°C overnight. The reaction mixture was filtered through celite, washing with MeOH/EtOAc. The filtrate was concentrated and purified by flash silica chromatography, elution gradient 0 to 70% EtOAc in heptane. Pure fractions were evaporated to drynes

The source

This record comes from experimental reaction archive (ord-3ee1bec4d5b244e8a0d82f023c1c6526). Open the source and check it against what is on this page.

  • experimental reaction archive record ord-3ee1bec4d5b244e8a0d82f023c1c6526 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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