Methylamine → N-Methyl-4-anisidine

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Following general procedure A, a mixture of 4-chloroanisole (123 μL, 1.0 mmol), 2M methylamine (1 mL, 2.0 mmol), NaOt-Bu (120 mg, 1.2 mmol), BrettPhos precatalyst 10 (8 mg, 0.01 mmol), and t-BuOH (1 mL) was stirred at room temperature for 2 h. The crude product was purified via column chromatography (20:1 CH2Cl2/MeOH) to provide the title compound as a yellow liquid that turned into a tan solid upon standing (126 mg, 92%). 1H NMR (400 MHz, CDCl3) δ: 6.80 (dt, J=9.0, 2.3 Hz, 2H), 6.59 (dt, J=9.0, 2.3 Hz, 2H), 3.76 (s, 3H), 3.46 (bs, 1H), 2.81 (s, 3H) ppm. 13C NMR (75 MHz, CDCl3) δ: 152.2, 143.9, 115.1, 113.8, 56.1, 31.8 ppm. Ali, H. I.; Tomita, K.; Akaho, E.; Kambara, H.; Miura, S.; Hayakawa, H.; Ashida, N.; Kawashima, Y.; Yamagishi, T.; Ikeya, H.; Yoneda, F.; Nagamatsu, T. Bioorg. Med. Chem. 2007, 15, 242.

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