Reaction #70591

Reaction equation

4,5-bis(diphenylphosphino)-9,9-dimethylxanthene

cesium carbonate

5-bromo-2-phenylpyrimidine

tert-butyl-4-thiazolecarboxylate

→

title compound

tert-butyl 2-(2-phenylpyrimidin-5-yl)thiazole-4-carboxylate

Solvents

DMF

Conditions

Workup

1. 1
   Otherprepared
2. 2
   TemperatureThe mixture was cooled to room temperature
3. 3
   Filtrationfiltered through Celite
4. 4
   Washwashing with hot ethyl acetate
5. 5
   OtherSolvent was removed under reduced pressure
6. 6
   Otherthe residue purified by silica gel flash chromatography (9:1 to 3:2 v/v hexane-ethyl acetate gradient) through a 40-g Silicycle® flash silica cartridge

Procedure

In a sealed tube, cesium carbonate (1.95 g, 6.00 mmol), tert-butyl-4-thiazolecarboxylate (556 mg, 3.00 mmol; prepared according to the procedure described in Organic Letters, 2008, 10(13), 2909), palladium(II) acetate (47 mg, 0.21 mmol) and 4,5-bis(diphenylphosphino)-9,9-dimethylxanthene (240 mg, 0.42 mmol) were combined with 5-bromo-2-phenylpyrimidine (705 mg, 3.00 mmol) in dry DMF (11 mL) and the mixture heated at 110° C. for 18 hours with stirring. The mixture was cooled to room temperature and filtered through Celite washing with hot ethyl acetate. Solvent was removed under reduced pressure and the residue purified by silica gel flash chromatography (9:1 to 3:2 v/v hexane-ethyl acetate gradient) through a 40-g Silicycle® flash silica cartridge. The title compound was obtained as a white solid (646 mg, 63% yield); Rf 0.75 with 1:1 v/v hexane-ethyl acetate; 1H-NMR (300 MHz; CDCl3) δ 9.37 (s, 2H), 8.52 (dd, 2H), 8.15 (s, 1H), 7.54 (m, 3H), 1.64 (s, 9H); MS (ESI+) m/z 340 (M+1); H-PGDS FPBA IC50: 5.9 μM.

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