Hydroxylamine → Furo[3,2-c]pyridin-4-amine

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To 4-chlorofuro[3,2-c]pyridine (1 g, 6.5 mmol) in toluene under nitrogen was added racemic BINAP (0.243 g, 0.4 mmol), Pd2(dba)3 (0.12 g, 0.13 mmol) and sodium tert-butoxide (0.88 g, 9.1 mmol). Benzophenoneimine (1.3 mL, 7.81 mmol) was added and the mixture was heated to 80° C. for 3 h and cooled to room temperature. The reaction mixture was diluted with ether, filtered through Celite, and washed with ether. The filtrate was concentrated and the deep orange residue was taken up in methanol (90 ml) and treated with hydroxylamine (1.2 mL, 19.5 mmol). The mixture was stirred at ambient temperature for 18 h and concentrated. The residue was purified by column chromatography (95-100% ethyl acetate/hexanes) to afford furo[3,2-c]pyridin-4-amine (776 mg, 5.79 mmol, 89% yield) as a deep orange solid. MS (LC/MS) R.T.=0.51; [M+H]+=135.02.

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