4,4-Dimethylpiperidin-2-one → 1-(5-Bromo-pyrazin-2-yl)-4,4-dimethyl-pyrrolidin-2-one

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To a well stirred suspension of 2-bromo-5-iodopyrazine (300 mg, 1.05 mmol), 4,4-dimethylpiperidin-2-one (155 mg, 1.37 mmol, 1.3 equiv.) and 4,5-bis(diphenylphosphino)-9,9-dimethylxanthene (xantphos) (24.4 mg, 0.042 mmol, 0.04 equiv.) in 4 ml of toluene were added under argon atmosphere tris(dibenzylideneacetone)dipalladium(0) (Pd2(dba)3), (19.3 mg, 0.021 mmol, 0.02 equiv.) and the mixture was stirred for 5 hours at 100° C. The crude mixture was adsorbed on silicagel and purified by flash chromatography over a 20 g silicagel column using a 2:1 heptane/ethyl acetate mixture as eluant. The title compound (151 mg, 53% yield) was obtained as a white solid, MS: m/e=270.1, 272.1 (M+H+).

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