A cloudy solution of (R)-4-((S)-1-(tert-butoxy)ethyl)-3-(5-fluoro-2-(((S)-1-(piperidin-4-yl)ethyl)amino)pyrimidin-4-yl)oxazolidin-2-one (21 mg, 0.051 mmol), 4-bromo-2-(1,1,1-trifluoro-2-methylpropan-2-yl)pyridine (14 mg, 0.051 mmol), Pd(OAc)2 (1 mg, 5 umol), BINAP (3 mg, 5 umol), and Cs2CO3 (25 mg, 0.077 mmol) in 6 mL toluene was heated at 90° C. overnight. The mixture was cooled to room temperature, and filtered through Celite. The celite cake was rinsed with 5 mL EtOAc. The filtrate was poured into 5 mL water. Organic layer was separated, and the aqueous was further extracted with EtOAc (5 mL). The organic extracts were combined and concentrated by rotary evaporation. The resulting crude was dissolved in DCM (1 mL), TFA (1 mL) was added. The reaction solution was stirred for 2 hour at room temperature and was concentrated by rotary evaporation. The resulting residue was dissolved in DCM (2 mL) and water (2 mL) and the pH was adjusted to ˜9 with NH4OH. The DCM layer was separated and concentrated by rotary evaporation. The crude was dissolved in a mixture of MeOH (1 mL) and DMSO (1 mL) and purified by reverse phase HPLC. Selected fractions were collected and concentrated by rotary evaporation to afford the title product as a colorless oil (5 mg) (ratio of two peaks with same MS: 93/7% by LC-MS). (400 MHz, CD2Cl2) δ 8.16-8.08 (m, 2H), 6.79-6.75 (m, 1H), 6.57-6.52 (m, 1H), 4.97-4.86 (m, 1H), 4.47-4.39 (m, 2H), 4.33-4.25 (m, 1H), 4.11-4.02 (m, 1H), 3.89-3.75 (m, 3H), 2.97 (br s, 1H), 2.80-2.67 (m, 2H), 1.84-1.67 (m, 2H), 1.67-1.55 (m, 1H), 1.48 (s, 6H), 1.38-1.15 (m, 2H), 1.11 (d, J=5.91 Hz, 3H), 1.07 (d, J=5.91 Hz, 3H), HRMS(C) tR=3.59 min; MS m/z 541.2557 (M+H)+
