Potassium Phosphate, Tribasic → Ethyl 2-[1-(2-ethoxy-3'-methylaminobiphenyl-4-yl)meth-(e)-ylidene]butyrate

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45 mg (0.2 mmol) of palladium acetate and then 140 mg (0.4 mmol) of 2-(dicyclohexylphosphino)biphenyl are added to a mixture of 1.7 g (4 mmol) of ethyl 2-[1-(3-ethoxy-4-trifluoromethanesulfonyloxyphenyl)meth-(E)-ylidene]butyrate, 1.1 g (4.8 mmol) of methyl[3-(4,4,5,5-tetramethyl[1.3.2]dioxaborolan-2-yl)phenyl]amine (prepared according to Example 28a) and 2 mL of aqueous 2 M potassium phosphate solution in 8 mL of dimethylformamide. The reaction mixture is heated at 90-95° C. for 3 hours. The reaction medium is hydrolyzed in saturated ammonium chloride solution and extracted with ethyl acetate. The organic phases are combined, washed with saturated sodium chloride solution and dried over sodium sulfate. The solvent is evaporated off and the brown oil obtained (2.3 g) is purified by chromatography on a column of silica eluted with a 90/10 heptane/ethyl acetate mixture. 526 mg (15%) of ethyl 2-[1-(2-ethoxy-3′-methylaminobiphenyl-4-yl)meth-(E)-ylidene]butyrate are obtained in the form of a yellow oil.

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