Aniline → HCID 70654544, compound

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Reaction Steps

2-(3-bromophenyl)-1-phenyl-1H-imidazole (5.7 g, 19.05 mmol), aniline (0.85 g, 9.13 mmol), sodium tert-butoxide (2.55 g, 26.6 mmol), Pd2dba3 (0.167 g, 0.183 mmol) and 2-dicyclohexylphosphino-2′,6′-dimethoxybiphenyl (S-Phos) (0.299 g, 0.730 mmol) were charged into the reaction flask with 150 mL of m-xylenes. This mixture was heated at reflux for 1 day. The reaction mixture was diluted with 100 mL of water then was filtered through a pad of Celite®. The m-xylene layer was separated and dried over magnesium sulfate. The organics were filtered and stripped under vacuum. The crude residue was passed through a silica gel column using 10-30% acetone/DCM yielding N-phenyl-3-(1-phenyl-1H-imidazol-2-yl)aniline (1.72 g, 5.5 mmol, 60.6% yield).

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