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A broad-spectrum, catalytic method has been developed for the synthesis of sulfonamides and sulfamates. With the activation by the combination of a catalytic amount of 1-hydroxybenzotriazole (HOBt) and silicon additives, amidations of sulfonyl fluorides and fluorosulfates proceeded smoothly and excellent yields were generally obtained (87–99 %). Noticeably, this protocol is particularly efficient for sterically hindered substrates. Catalyst loading is generally low and only 0.02 mol % of catalyst is required for the multidecagram-scale synthesis of an amantadine derivative. In addition, the potential of this method in medicinal chemistry has been demonstrated by the synthesis of the marketed drug Fedratinib via a key intermediate sulfonyl fluoride 13. Since a large number of amines are commercially available, this route provides a facile entry to access Fedratinib analogues for biological screening.

A general synthesis of stable ortho-boropinacolato aryl and heteroaryl sulfonamides by directed ortho-metalation (DoM) and either MeOBPin or i-PrOBpin electrophile quench, 3 → 4, is described. A one-pot metalation-Suzuki cross-coupling procedure for the synthesis of biaryls and heterobiaryls, 3 → 5, and a complementary DoM-Ir-catalyzed boronation sequence (Scheme 6) are delineated.

(Chemical Equation Presented) By using the powerful N-cumylsulfonamide directed metalation group (DMG), a series of 2-substituted derivatives were prepared according to the directed ortho metalation (DoM) tactic (Table 1). Mild conditions for N-decumylation and other simple transformations of the products have been achieved (Scheme 2). The 3-silyloxy sultam 12 undergoes further DoM to give formyl, thiomethyl, iodo, and amide derivatives 13a-g of potential value for saccharin synthesis (Table 2). An effective route to target 7-aryl saccharins via Suzuki cross coupling (Table 3) followed by further metalation-carbamoylation and cyclization (Table 5) is described. 4,7-Disubstituted saccharins have been obtained by similar sequences (Scheme 3). Mild TFA-mediated N-decumylation furnishes substituted primary arylsulfonamides (Table 4).

[RuVI(TMP)(NSO2R)2] (SO2R = Ms, Ts, Bs, Cs, Ns; R = p-C6H4OMe, p-C6H 4Me, C6H5, p-C6H4-Cl, p-C6H4NO2, respectively) and [Ru VI(Por)(NTs)2] (Por = 2,6-Cl2TPP, F 20-TPP) were prepared by the reactions of [RuII(Por)(CO)] with Phl=NSO2R in CH2Cl2. These complexes exhibit reversible RuVI/V couple with E1/2 = -0.41 to -0.12 V vs Cp2Fe+/10 and undergo imido transfer reactions with styrenes, norbornene, cis-cyclooctene, indene, ethylbenzenes, cumene, 9,10-dihydroanthracene, xanthene, cyclohexene, toluene, and tetrahydrofuran to afford aziridines or amides in up to 85% yields. The second-order rate constants (k2) of the aziridination/amidation reactions at 298 K were determined to be (2.6 ± 0.1) × 10-5 to 14.4 ± 0.6 dm3 mol-1 s-1, which generally increase with increasing RuVI/V reduction potential of the imido complexes and decreasing C-H bond dissociation energy (BDE) of the hydrocarbons. A linear correlation was observed between log K (K is the k2 value divided by the number of reactive hydrogens) and BDE and between log k2 and E1/2(RuVI/V); the linearity in the former case supports a H-atom abstraction mechanism. The amidation by [RuVI(TMP)(NNs) 2] reverses the thermodynamic reactivity order cumene > ethylbenzene/toluene, with K(3° C-H)/K(2° C-H) = 0.2 and K(3° C-H)/K(1° C-H) = 0.8.