Organic Letters 2006-11-23

Cobalt-catalyzed aryl-sulfur bond formation.

Ying-Chieh Wong, Thiruvellore Thatai Jayanth, Chien-Hong Cheng

Index: Org. Lett. 8 , 5613, (2006)

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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. [reaction: see text].