2-Bromo-4-fluorobenzonitrile

Off-white to light yellow powder

General procedure: To an oven-dried 2 ml reaction vial equipped with a stir bar wasadded the aldehyde 3a (0.136 g, 1 mmol, 1 equiv) and pyridine(0.474 g, 6.0 mmol, 6 equiv), followed by acetonitrile (2 ml, 0.5M in 3a). The vial was then charged with Ru(bpy)3(PF6)2 (0.017g, 0.02 mmol, 0.02 equiv), 2 (0.043 g, 0.20 mmol, 0.20 equiv), (NH4)2S2O8(0.501 g, 2.2 mmol, 2.2 equiv), and activated 3 Åmolecular sieves (ca. 0.2 g), sealed with a cap, and irradiated inblue LED reactor for 24 h. In the absence of fan cooling, the temperatureof the reaction mixture plateaued at approximately 50°C . After the irradiation was complete, the reaction mixturewas quenched with EtOAc and transferred to a separatoryfunnel. Further EtOAc (30 ml) was added, followed by 0.5 MHCl(aq) (30 ml). The layers were separated, and the aqueous layerwas extracted with EtOAc (3 × 20 ml). The organic layers werethen combined and washed with 0.5 M 0.5 M HCl(aq) (2 × 20 ml), saturated aqueous sodium bicarbonate (2 × 20 ml), and finallybrine (20 ml). The organic layer was then dried over sodiumsulfate and the solvent removed in vacuo to afford the crudeproduct. The resulting crude mixture was adhered to silica gelusing 1.5 weight equivalents of SiO2(relative to the theoreticalyield). The dry-packed material was gently added on top of asilica gel plug. The plug was washed with an excess of hexanes(ca. 5 column volumes). The desired product was eluted off theplug via a 90:10 by volume mixture of hexanes/EtOAc (3–4column volumes). The solvent was removed in vacuo by rotaryevaporation affording the pure nitrile 3c (0.066 g, 50percent) as awhite solid.

Molecular Weight:200.01
XLogP3:2.4
Hydrogen Bond Acceptor Count:2
Exact Mass:198.94329
Monoisotopic Mass:198.94329
Topological Polar Surface Area:23.8
Heavy Atom Count:10
Complexity:162
Covalently-Bonded Unit Count:1
Compound Is Canonicalized:Yes