A slurry of 380 mg (1.00 mmol) 4-(5-bromo-pyridin-3-yl)-2-(2-fluoro-phenyl)-[1,8]naphthyridine, 354 mg (1.10 mmol) 1-[2-(tetrahydro-pyran-2-yloxy)-ethyl]-4-(4,4,5,5-tetramethyl-[1,3,2]dioxaborolan-2-yl)-1H-pyrazole (prepared from 4-(4,4,5,5-tetramethyl-[1,3,2]dioxaborolan-2-yl)-1H-pyrazole and 2-(2-bromo-ethoxy)-tetrahydro-pyran (in analogy to example 10) and 425 mg (2.00 mmol) tri-potassium-phosphate-trihydrate in 3 ml 1,2-dimethoxyethane was heated to 85° C. under nitrogen. Then 35.1 mg (0.05 mmol) bis-(triphenylphosphine)-palladium(II)-chloride and 14 μl trimethylamine were added. The reaction mixture was stirred for 16 hours at 85° C. The reaction mixture was cooled to room temperature and partitioned between water and dichloromethane. The organic phase was dried over sodium sulfate and evaporated. The residue was chromatographed on a silica gel column with dichloromethane/methanol as eluent yielding 2-(2-fluoro-phenyl)-4-(5-{1-[2-(tetrahydro-pyran-2-yloxy)-ethyl]-1H-pyrazol-4-yl}-pyridin-3-yl)-[1,8]naphthyridine as yellow solid; HPLC-MS: 2.13 min, [M+H] 496.
