Sodium Carbonate → methyl 5-(2-chloro-4-fluorophenyl)-4-methyl-1H-pyrrole-3-carboxylate

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A mixture of methyl 5-bromo-4-methyl-1H-pyrrole-3-carboxylate (0.63 g, 2.8 mmol), (2-chloro-4-fluorophenyl)boronic acid (1.0 g, 5.7 mmol), Na2CO3 (0.91 g, 8.6 mmol) and palladium tetrakis(triphenylphosphine) (0.17 g, 0.14 mmol) in toluene/water (10:1, 25 ml) was stirred at 110° C. for 9.0 h under N2. The reaction mixture was cooled to room temperature and diluted with ethyl acetate. The mixture was washed with water and brine, then dried over sodium sulfate and concentrated on a rotary evaporator. The resulting residue was purified by silica-gel column chromatography (6:1 to 1:1 hexane:ethyl acetate) to give the title compound (634 mg, 84%) as a white solid.

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