Sodium Carbonate → (2'-Chloro-biphenyl-2-yl)-acetonitrile

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To a stirred solution of (2-bromophenyl)-acetonitrile (13) (5 g, 25.51 mmol) in a mixture of toluene and ethanol (1:1, 150 mL) was added 2-chloro phenyl boronic acid (14) (6 g, 38.2 mmol) and Na2CO3 (8.1 g, 76.53 mmol) at room temperature. Purging was conducting for 30 min with nitrogen. Then triphenyl phosphine (2.6 g, 10.2 mmol) was added followed by Pd(OAc)2 (0.287 g, 1.27 mmol) and further degassing was conducted for another 10 min. The reaction mixture was heated to reflux for 10 h. After completion of the reaction, the mixture was concentrated under reduced pressure to get a crude product which was purified using a silica column using 2% ethyl acetate in hexane to get (2′-chloro-biphenyl-2-yl)-acetonitrile (15) (4.9 g, 84.36%) as a yellow liquid.

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