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Buchwald–Hartwig amination: 2-Bromo-4-chloropyridine → N-(4-chloro-2-pyridinyl)-1,3-oxazol-2-amine

8% yield, run at 140 °C, as recorded by experimental reaction archive. The written procedure is below. One of 11 recorded runs making this product; all of them are compared below.

verified record, 8% 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

ClCCCNCNCNCCOCBrHHHH
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-Bromo-4-chloropyridineC₅H₃BrClN—
Reactant2-AminooxazoleC₃H₄N₂O—
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)-1,3-oxazol-2-amineC₈H₆ClN₃O7.67%

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

  • 8% of N-(4-chloro-2-pyridinyl)-1,3-oxazol-2-amine.

Every recorded run making this product

11 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.

ReactantsCatalystReagentsSolventTemp.TimeYield
2,4-Dichloropyridine; 2-Aminooxazole1,1'-(9,9-Dimethyl-9H-xanthene-4,5-diyl)bis(1,1-diphenylphosphine); Bis(dibenzylideneacetone)palladiumPotassium CarbonateAnisole120 °C—50%
2,4-Dichloropyridine; 2-Aminooxazole1,1'-(9,9-Dimethyl-9H-xanthene-4,5-diyl)bis(1,1-diphenylphosphine); Palladium (II) acetateCesium carbonate1,4-Dioxane100 °C—11%
2-Bromo-4-chloropyridine; 2-Aminooxazole1,1'-(9,9-Dimethyl-9H-xanthene-4,5-diyl)bis(1,1-diphenylphosphine); Bis(dibenzylideneacetone)palladiumCesium carbonate1,4-Dioxane140 °C—8% (this run)
2,4-Dichloropyridine; 2-Aminooxazole1,1'-(9,9-Dimethyl-9H-xanthene-4,5-diyl)bis(1,1-diphenylphosphine); Bis(dibenzylideneacetone)palladiumSodium hydride1,4-Dioxane140 °C—3%
2,4-Dichloropyridine; 2-Aminooxazole1,1'-(9,9-Dimethyl-9H-xanthene-4,5-diyl)bis(1,1-diphenylphosphine); Bis(dibenzylideneacetone)palladiumsodium phenoxide1,4-Dioxane80 °C—3%
2,4-Dichloropyridine; 2-Aminooxazole1,1'-(9,9-Dimethyl-9H-xanthene-4,5-diyl)bis(1,1-diphenylphosphine); Bis(dibenzylideneacetone)palladiumCesium carbonate1,4-Dioxane140 °C—2%
2,4-Dichloropyridine; 2-Aminooxazole1,1'-(9,9-Dimethyl-9H-xanthene-4,5-diyl)bis(1,1-diphenylphosphine); Palladium (II) acetateCesium carbonateDimethylacetamide100 °C—2%
2-Bromo-4-chloropyridine; 2-Aminooxazole1,1'-(9,9-Dimethyl-9H-xanthene-4,5-diyl)bis(1,1-diphenylphosphine); Bis(dibenzylideneacetone)palladiumsodium phenoxide1,4-Dioxane170 °C—1%
2,4-Dichloropyridine; 2-AminooxazoleBis(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-Dioxane140 °C—0%
2,4-Dichloropyridine; 2-Aminooxazole1,1'-(9,9-Dimethyl-9H-xanthene-4,5-diyl)bis(1,1-diphenylphosphine); Bis(dibenzylideneacetone)palladiumPotassium Phosphate, Tribasic1,4-Dioxane160 °C—0%
2,4-Dichloropyridine; 2-AminooxazoleBinap, (A+-)-; Bis(dibenzylideneacetone)palladiumsodium 2-methylpropan-2-olateToluene100 °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: To find out if the 2-bromopyridine is a more efficient coupling partner than the chloro analogue. Pd2(dba)3 (22.89 mg, 0.025 mmol), 9,9-dimethyl-4,5-bis(diphenylphosphino)xanthene (43.4 mg, 0.075 mmol), 2-bromo-4-chloropyridine (192 mg, 1.00 mmol), cesium carbonate (652 mg, 2.00 mmol) and oxazol-2-amine (84 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 at 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 30% EtOAc in heptane. Pure fractions were evaporated to dryness to afford N-(4-chloropyridin-2-yl)oxazol-2-amine (15.00 mg, 7.67 %) as a white

The source

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  • experimental reaction archive record ord-25a2d29381d0432e90a88d041ce4da72 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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