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Buchwald–Hartwig amination: 2-Chlorothiophene → 1-Boc-4-(2-thienyl)piperazine

0% yield, run at 95 °C, as recorded by experimental reaction archive. The written procedure is below.

verified record, 0% 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

CCCCOCONCCNCCCCSCCClHHH
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-ChlorothiopheneC₄H₃ClS—
Reactanttert-Butyl piperazine-1-carboxylateC₉H₁₈N₂O₂—
ReagentTriethylamineC₆H₁₅N—
CatalystTriphenylphosphineC₁₈H₁₅P—
CatalystTetrakis(triphenylphosphine)palladiumC₇₂H₆₀P₄Pd—
SolventDimethylformamideC₃H₇NO—
Product1-Boc-4-(2-thienyl)piperazineC₁₃H₂₀N₂O₂S0%

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
95 °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

  • 0% of 1-Boc-4-(2-thienyl)piperazine.

Procedure

Copied from the source record, unedited

To a mixture of 2-chlorothiophene (0.248 mL, 2.68 mmol), tert-butyl piperazine-1-carboxylate (500 mg, 2.68 mmol), and TEA (1.123 mL, 8.05 mmol) in DMF (4 mL) was added Pd(Ph3P)4 (57.8 mg, .05 mmol). The reaction was allowed to heat at 95 °C for overnight. LCMS and TLC showed the starting material peak as well as the triphenyl phosphene ionized M+1 peak. The tryphenyl phosphene showed up at the same retention time as 2-chlorothiophene. No new peak was observed following the reaction so no purification techniques were run. MS (m+1) = not seen

The source

This record comes from experimental reaction archive (ord-37aa4a46f5494844887cf9e7ccaf1b0d). Open the source and check it against what is on this page.

  • experimental reaction archive record ord-37aa4a46f5494844887cf9e7ccaf1b0d 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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