A mixture of methyl 4-bromo-3-cyano-benzoate (100 mg, 0.4166 mmol), potassium acetate (122.7 mg, 1.250 mmol), 4,4,5,5-tetramethyl-2-(4,4,5,5-tetramethyl-1,3,2-dioxaborolan-2-yl)-1,3,2-dioxaborolane (158.7 mg, 0.6249 mmol) and 1-cyclopenta-1,4-dienyl-diphenyl-phosphane; dichloromethane; dichloropalladium; iron (34.02 mg, 0.04166 mmol) was heated in dioxane (10 mL) at 80° C. for 2 h. After this time, the reaction mixture was cooled and palladium; triphenylphosphane (48.14 mg, 0.04166 mmol), sodium carbonate (625.0 μL of 2 M, 1.250 mmol) and 5-bromo-3-(5-phenyl-1,3,4-thiadiazol-2-yl)pyrazin-2-amine (139.2 mg, 0.4166 mmol) were added and heated at 140° C. under microwave conditions for 1 h. After cooling to room temperature, the resulting carboxylic acid was filtered off as brown solid. The solid was dissolved in DMF (3 mL) and 1,4-diazepane (208.3 mg, 2.083 mmol) and TBTU (267.5 mg, 0.8332 mmol) were added. The resulting mixture was stirred at room temperature for 2 h then diluted with ethyl acetate (5 mL), and the organic extract washed with water (1×5 mL) and brine (1×5 mL), dried over MgSO4 and concentrated in vacuo to a solid. This solid was purified by reverse phase preparative HPLC [Waters Sunfire C18, 10 μM, 100 Å column, gradient 10%-95% B (solvent A: 0.05% TFA in water; solvent B: CH3CN) over 16 minutes at 25 mL/min]. The product fractions were collected and lypholised to give the product as a yellow solid (60 mg, 25% yield); 1H NMR (400.0 MHz, DMSO) d 1.9-2.1 (m, 2H), 3.3-3.4 (m, 4H), 3.5-3.55 (m, 2H), 3.65-3.7 (m, 1H), 3.7-3.75 (m, 1H), 3.8-3.9 (m, 2H), 7.5-7.6 (m, 3H), 7.8 (d, 1H), 8.1-8.22 (m, 3H), 8.25 (br s, 1H), 8.75 (br s, 2H) and 8.8 (s, 1H) ppm; MS (ES+) 483.2
