Cesium carbonate → Tert-butyl 4-(2-(ethoxycarbonyl)-4-methylbenzofuran-5-yl)piperazine-1-carboxylate

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Toluene (30 ml) was stirred under argon atmosphere for 30 minutes at room temperature. Cesium carbonate (4.83 g, 0.015 mol), palladium acetate (0.19 g, 0.0008 mol), BINAP (0.66 g, 0.001 mol), 5-Bromo-4-methyl-benzofuran-2-carboxylic acid ethyl ester (3 g, 0.010 mol) and piperazine-1-carboxylic acid tert-butyl ester (2.16 g, 0.001 mol) was added with a regular interval of 30 minutes under argon atmosphere. The reaction mixture was stirred for 30 minutes at room temperature and then heated to reflux. The mixture was maintained at reflux for 16 hours. The reaction mixture was diluted with ethyl acetate (50 ml) and the inorganic material was filtered. The filtrate was then washed with water (2×15 ml), brine solution (50 ml). The organic layer was dried over sodium sulfate and concentrated under reduced pressure to get crude product as dark brown solid. Column chromatography using 5/95 ethyl acetate/hexane yielded 4-(2-ethoxycarbonyl-4-methyl-benzofuran-5-yl)-piperazine-1-carboxylic acid tert-butyl ester (1.4 g, 34.1%)

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