Sodium Carbonate → Benzene, 4-methoxy-1-(1-methylethenyl)-2-nitro-

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To 1-chloro-4-methoxy-2-nitrobenzene (5.03 g, 26.8 mmol), 4,4,5,5-tetramethyl-2-(prop-1-en-2-yl)-1,3,2-dioxaborolane (5.41 g, 32.2 mmol), bis(triphenylphosphine)palladium(II) chloride (1.50 g, 2.15 mmol), and sodium carbonate (3.41 g, 32.2 mmol) was added dioxane/water (4:1, 100 mL:25 mL). The reaction was heated at 80° C. for 5 hours. The reaction was cooled to room temperature overnight. The reaction mixture was diluted with water, extracted with ethyl acetate (3×), dried over sodium sulfate, filtered, and concentrated. Purification by flash column chromatography using 0-5% ethyl acetate/hexanes as eluent followed by drying in vacuum oven provided the title compound as an orange oil (2.74 g, 53%): 1H NMR (400 MHz, CDCl3) δ 7.37 (d, J=2.7 Hz, 1H), 7.23 (d, J=8.6 Hz, 1H), 7.08 (dd, J=8.5, 2.6 Hz, 1H), 5.24-4.75 (m, 2H), 3.86 (s, 3H), 2.19-1.88 (m, 3H); 13C NMR (101 MHz, CDCl3) δ 158.79, 148.61, 142.53, 131.41, 131.32, 119.24, 115.20, 108.64, 55.84, 23.38; EIMS m/z 193 ([M]+).

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