p-Bromochlorobenzene → N-Benzhydrylidene-N'-(4-chlorophenyl)hydrazine

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Reaction Steps

Benzophenone hydrazone (1 equiv., 10 mmol, 2.04 g), 4-chlorobromobenzene (1.0 equiv., 10 mmol, 1.915 g), Pd(OAc)2 (0.01 equiv., 0.1 mmol, 23 mg), BINAP (0.01 equiv., 0.1 mmol, 63 mg), and toluene (5 mL) were added to an oven dried Schlenk flask and stirred at room temperature for 2 minutes, NaOtBu (1.4 equiv., 14 mmol, 1.345 g) and an additional 5 mL of toluene were then added. The flask was capped with a septum and purged briefly with argon (˜1 min.) and heated to 80° C. under argon for 13 hours. The reaction mixture was then cooled to room temperature, diluted with Et2O (10 mL), and concentrated under vacuum to give the crude product as a brown solid. Recrystallization of the crude product from hot isopropanol (100 mL) gave the desired product as a yellow solid (1.971 g, 6.4 mmol, 64% yield). The mother liquor was concentrated under vacuum and purified by column chromatography (5% EtOAc/Hex) to give an additional 550 mg of the desired product (1.79 mmol, 18% yield), to give an 82% overall yield of the title product.

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