Degas three times a mixture of (4-bromo-2-nitro-phenyl)-((7S,8aS)-hexahydro-pyrrolo[2,1-c][1,4]oxazin-7-yl)-amine (0.011 mol, 4.0 g), (E)-3,7-difluoro-11-(4,4,5,5-tetramethyl[1,3,2]dioxaborolan-2-ylmethylene)-6,11-dihydro-dibenzo[b,e]oxepine (0.012 mol, 4.76 g), triphenylphosphine (0.0031 mol, 0.8 g) and sodium methoxide (0.03 mol, 1.6 g) in tetrahydrofuran/methanol (3:1) (120 mL) with nitrogen. Add palladium (II) acetate (1.0 mmol, 240 mg) to the reaction mixture and degas again three times with nitrogen. Heat the reaction mixture at 70° C. for 4 h. Cool the reaction mixture to room temperature, filter through a plug of diatomaceous earth and concentrate the filtrate under reduced pressure to obtain the title compound (5.0 g, crude).
