4-(Pyrrolidin-1-ylsulfonyl)phenylboronic acid (0.33 g, 1.29 mmol), methyl 3-amino-6-bromopyrazine-2-carboxylate (0.25 g, 1.08 mmol; described in: H. Ellingson, J. Amer. Chem. Soc. 1949, 2798), K3PO3 (3 M, 1.1 mL, 3.2 mmol), and Pd(dppf)Cl2 (0.044 g, 54 μmol) were suspended in ethylene glycol dimethyl ether/water (1.5:0.5 mL) and heated in a microwave oven at 160° C. for 10 min. The reaction was repeated 3 times. The combined product mixtures were evaporated with silica gel and the crude product was purified by chromatography on silica gel using a heptane to ethyl acetate gradient to give 0.96 g (82% yield) of the title compound: MS (ES) m/z 363 (M++1).
