“…The synthesis of adamantane-containing 4,6-diaminopyrimidines was studied using a model compound 5a with Pd(dba) 2 as a precatalyst (Scheme 4, Table 1). Classical phosphine ligands, like BINAP (2,2 -bis(diphenylphosphino)-1,1 -binaphthyl) and DavePhos (2-Dicyclohexylphosphino-2 -(N,N-dimethylamino)biphenyl) [35], were studied, as well as Ph-JosiPhos and Cy-JosiPhos (CyPF-t Bu), which were shown to be efficient in the amination of halosubstituted heterocycles [36,37], were also tested. Other donor phosphine ligands with bulky substituents (SPhos, XPhos, RuPhos BrettPhos) were not studied in this reaction as they earlier had been shown to be much less efficient in the heteroarylation of adamantane-containing amines with 2-bromopyridines [38].…”