4-Chlorotoluene → 4-Methylbiphenyl

HRID 1884182Notes

Reaction equation

HRID 1884182 reaction equation
[CH3:1][C:2]1[CH:7]=[CH:6][C:5](Cl)=[CH:4][CH:3]=1.[C:9]1(B(O)O)[CH:14]=[CH:13][CH:12]=[CH:11][CH:10]=1.[F-].[Cs+]>O1CCOCC1.C1C=CC(/C=C/C(/C=C/C2C=CC=CC=2)=O)=CC=1.C1C=CC(/C=C/C(/C=C/C2C=CC=CC=2)=O)=CC=1.C1C=CC(/C=C/C(/C=C/C2C=CC=CC=2)=O)=CC=1.[Pd].[Pd]>[C:9]1([C:5]2[CH:6]=[CH:7][C:2]([CH3:1])=[CH:3][CH:4]=2)[CH:14]=[CH:13][CH:12]=[CH:11][CH:10]=1

Participants

6

Reactant 3

HCID 78104-ChlorotolueneHCID 25953Cesium fluorideHCID 66827Phenylboronic Acid

Product 1

HCID 125664-MethylbiphenylYield 31%

Reagents, catalysts & solvents 2

HCID 9811564Bis(dibenzylideneacetone)palladiumCatalystHCID 312751,4-DioxaneSolvent

Procedure

The general procedure above was followed using 4-methylchlorobenzene (127 mg, 1.0 mmol) and PhB(OH)2 (183 mg, 1.5 mmol) with Pd2(dba)3 (20 mg, 0.0218 mmol) and PhPH(O)(CHMe2) from Experiment 1 (14.7 mg, 0.0874 mmol) and CsF (456 mg, 3.0 mmol) in 4.0 mL of 1,4-dioxane. After 12 h, the reaction mixture was chromatographed with 5% ethyl acetate/hexane to give 52 mg (31% yield) of 4-phenyltoluene. It was >95% pure by 1H NMR and GC/MS.

Workup

  1. customthe reaction mixture was chromatographed with 5% ethyl acetate/hexane

Sources & evidence

ORD record
ord-f668c78a33f74fc4991e4e8540b4a7dd
Source dataset
uspto-grants-2004_07
Patent number
US06762330B2

Reaction notes

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