Organic letters

Cobalt-catalyzed aryl-sulfur bond formation

YC Wong, TT Jayanth, CH Cheng

Index: Wong, Ying-Chieh; Jayanth, Thiruvellore Thatai; Cheng, Chien-Hong Organic Letters, 2006 , vol. 8, # 24 p. 5613 - 5616

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Abstract

A new cobalt-catalyzed coupling of aryl halides with thiophenols and alkanethiols is reported. A variety of aryl sulfides can be prepared in excellent yields under mild reaction conditions using 1-2 mol% of CoI2 (dppe) and Zn. This new cobalt-catalyzed coupling represents an interesting addition to previously known methods to synthesize thioethers.