Sodium Carbonate → 4-Chloro-2-(2-fluorophenyl)pyridine

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A mixture of 2-fluorophenylboronic acid (141 mg, 1 mmol, 1.2 eq) in EtOH (1 mL) is added to a mixture of 4-chloro-2-iodo-pyridine [Choppin, S.; Gros, P.; Fort, Y., European Journal of Organic Chemistry (2001), (3), 603-606] (200 mg, 0.84 mmol), PdCl2(dppf) (18 mg, 0.025 mmol, 0.03 equiv) and Na2CO3 (2 M solution in H2O, 1.68 mL, 3.36 mmol, 4 equiv) in toluene (2 mL) at 105° C., under an argon atmosphere. The reaction mixture is stirred at 105° C. for 1 h, allowed to cool to rt, quenched by addition of a saturated solution of NaHCO3 and extracted with EtOAc. The organic phase is washed with a saturated solution of NaHCO3, dried (Na2SO4), filtered and concentrated. The residue is purified by silica gel column chromatography (Hex/EtOAc, 1:0→97:3) to afford 127 mg of the title compound as a white solid: ESI-MS: 208.1 [M+H]+; tR=4.66 min (System 1); TLC: Rf=0.27 (Hex/EtOAc, 9:1).

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