Sodium Carbonate → N-(4'-Cyano-2-trifluoromethyl-biphen-4-yl)-2-(4-imidazo[4,5-b]pyridin-3-yl-phenyl)-acetamide

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A mixture of 4-cyanophenylboronic acid (62 mg, 0.42 mmol, 2 equiv) in EtOH (0.2 mL) is added dropwise to a mixture of 2-(4-imidazo[4,5-b]pyridin-3-yl-phenyl)-N-(4-iodo-3-trifluoromethyl-phenyl)-acetamide (Example 12) (110 mg, 0.21 mmol), PdCl2(dppf)2 (5 mg, 0.01 mmol, 0.03 equiv), Na2CO3 (2 M solution in H2O, 0.42 mL, 0.84 mmol, 4 equiv) in toluene (1 mL) at reflux. The reaction mixture is stirred at reflux for 1 h, allowed to cool to rt and diluted with EtOAc and H2O. The aqueous layer is separated and extracted twice with EtOAc. The combined organic phase is washed with brine, dried (Na2SO4), filtered and concentrated in vacuo. Silica gel column chromatography purification (CH2Cl2/MeOH, 96:4) provides the title compound as a white solid: ES-MS: 495.9 [M-H]−; single peak at tR=4.68 min (System 1); Rf=0.15 (CH2Cl2/MeOH, 96:4).

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