An oven-dried flask was charged with 1-[5-amino-6-chloro-1-(2-methoxy-ethoxymethyl)-1H-benzoimidazol-2-yl]-1H-pyrazole-4-carboxylic acid ethyl ester (Intermediate from Example 41, product from Step A) (0.100 g, 0.254 mmol), bromobenzene (43.8 mg, 0.279 mmol), Pd(dba)2 (1.50 mg, 2.50 μmol), Q-Phos (3.60 mg, 5.10 μmol), and sodium tert-butoxide (36.6 mg, 0.381 mmol). The flask was purged with N2. Dry toluene (0.5 mL) was added and the slurry was briefly sonicated. The reaction mixture was heated at 50° C. for 18 h. The reaction mixture was then diluted with dichloromethane and filtered through a pad of Celite®. The filter cake was rinsed with EtOAc and the filtrate was concentrated under reduced pressure. The residue was purified (FCC) (10-45% EtOAc/hexanes) to yield the titled compound (7.1 mg, 6% yield), which was used in the next step without further purification. MS (ESI/CI): mass calcd. for C23H24ClN5O4, 469.2; m/z found, 470.1 [M+H]+.
