3-AMINO-4-METHYLBENZONITRILE

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C.14.b. General procedure: An oven-dried Schlenk tube with the presence of magnetic stir bar which is Teflon-coated was charged with Pd(dba)2 (11.5 mg, 0.02 mmol, 2 molpercent) and ligand L4 (8.4 mg, 0.02 mmol, 2 molpercent). The flask was evacuated and backfilled with nitrogen (3 cycles). Pre-complexation of palladium and ligand was initiated by injecting freshly distilled dry dichloromethane (2.0 mL) and Et3N (0.1 mL) into the tube. The solution was stirred and warmed with hair drier till the solvent condensed on the tube wall. The solvent was removed under vacuum. Aryl bromide (1.0 mmol), KOt-Bu (0.25 mmol), and potassium hexacyanoferrate(II) trihydrate (0.23 mmol) were charged successively to the tube followed by another 3 evacuation-nitrogen refill cycles. Water (1.0 mL) and acetonitrile (1.0 mL) were used as a solvent mixture. The tube was immersed into a preheated 50 °C oil bath for 24 hours. The reaction was quenched by cooling to ambient temperature and added with EtOAc and water. The organic supernatant was analyzed by GC. The organic layer was separated and the remained aqua medium was further extracted with EtOAc (10 mL .x. 3). The combined organic phases were concentrated under reduced pressure. The crude product was purified by flash column chromatography on silica gel (230-400 mesh). The pure fractions were collected, dried under vacuum, and followed by proton (General procedure: Following the amide intermediate Preparation Example A. The reaction vessel is closed (when the amide intermediate has a boiling point at normal pressure equal to or lower than the reaction temperature TB described below) or the reaction vessel is kept open (when the amide intermediate has a boiling point higher than the normal pressure When the reaction temperature is TB), the stirring is continued (600 r/min), the reaction temperature is changed to TB, and after the reaction temperature TB is maintained for TD hours, the reaction is almost complete. Then, the reaction vessel was sealed and connected to a vacuum pump so that the degree of vacuum in the reaction vessel reached 20-50 mbar (according to the type of nitrile product) and the distillate was used as the nitrile product. The yield of the nitrile product was calculated and sampled for nuclear magnetic proteomics and elemental analysis to characterize the nitrile product obtained. Specific reaction conditions and characterization results are shown in Tables A-7, A-8, A-9, A-10 and A-11 below. These characterization results show that the nitrile product obtained has an extremely high purity (above 99percent).In these nitrile product preparation examples, 10 g of diphosphorus pentoxide was optionally added to the reaction vessel as a catalyst at the start of the reaction.General procedure: Following the amide intermediate Preparation Example A. The reaction vessel is closed (when the amide intermediate has a boiling point at normal pressure equal to or lower than the reaction temperature TB described below) or the reaction vessel is kept open (when the amide intermediate has a boiling point higher than the normal pressure When the reaction temperature is TB), the stirring is continued (600 r/min), the reaction temperature is changed to TB, and after the reaction temperature TB is maintained for TD hours, the reaction is almost complete. Then, the reaction vessel was sealed and connected to a vacuum pump so that the degree of vacuum in the reaction vessel reached 20-50 mbar (according to the type of nitrile product) and the distillate was used as the nitrile product. The yield of the nitrile product was calculated and sampled for nuclear magnetic proteomics and elemental analysis to characterize the nitrile product obtained. Specific reaction conditions and characterization results are shown in Tables A-7, A-8, A-9, A-10 and A-11 below. These characterization results show that the nitrile product obtained has an extremely high purity (above 99%).In these nitrile product preparation examples, 10 g of diphosphorus pentoxide was optionally added to the reaction vessel as a catalyst at the start of the reaction.