Sodium Carbonate → Methyl 4-methyl-5-phenyl-1-(phenylsulfonyl)-1H-pyrrole-3-carboxylate

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Methyl 5-bromo-4-methyl-1-(phenylsulfonyl)-1H-pyrrole-3-carboxylate (1.1 g), phenylboronic acid (487 mg), sodium carbonate (488 mg) and tetrakis(triphenylphosphine)palladium (355 mg) were suspended in a mixture of 1,2-dimethoxyethane (10 mL) and distilled water (10 mL), and the mixture was reacted in a microwave reactor (Emrys Optimizer, Personal Chemistry, 140° C., 4 min). The reaction mixture was filtered through celite, water was added to the filtrate and the mixture was extracted with ethyl acetate. The extract was washed with saturated brine, dried over anhydrous sodium sulfate, and concentrated under reduced pressure. The residue was purified by silica gel column chromatography (eluent: hexane-ethyl acetate=9:1→2:1) to give the title compound as a pale-yellow oil (yield 947 mg, 87%).

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