Potassium Phosphate, Tribasic → Ethyl 4-nitro-[1,1'-biphenyl]-3-carboxylate

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To a stirring solution of ethyl 5-chloro-2-nitrobenzoate (2 g, 8.71 mmol) and phenylboronic acid (2.124 g, 17.42 mmol) in DMF (20 ml) was added K3PO4 (2.77 g, 13.07 mmol), palladium acetate (0.098 g, 0.436 mmol) and tetrabutylammonium bromide (4.21 g, 13.07 mmol). Reaction mixture was heated at 95° C. for 16 h. Reaction mixture was diluted with water and extracted with EtOAc. The organic layer was separated and distilled out to get crude product which was column purified using 10% EtOAC in hexane to get the titled compound in 89% yield.

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