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Direct Copper-Catalyzed Three-Component Synthesis of Sulfonamides
Chen, Yiding,Murray, Philip R. D.,Davies, Alyn T.,Willis, Michael C.
supporting information, p. 8781 - 8787 (2018/07/29)
First introduced into medicines in the 1930s, the sulfonamide functional group continues to be present in a wide range of contemporary pharmaceuticals and agrochemicals. Despite their popularity in the design of modern bioactive molecules, the underpinning methods for sulfonamide synthesis are essentially unchanged since their introduction, and rely on the use of starting materials with preinstalled sulfur-functionality. Herein we report a direct single-step synthesis of sulfonamides that combines two of the largest monomer sets available in discovery chemistry, (hetero)aryl boronic acids and amines, along with sulfur dioxide, using a Cu(II) catalyst, to deliver a broad range of sulfonamides. Sulfur dioxide is provided by the surrogate reagent DABSO. The reaction tolerates broad variation in both coupling partners, including aryl, heteroaryl and alkenyl boronic acids, as well as cyclic and acyclic alkyl secondary amines, and primary anilines. We validate the method by showing that a variety of drugs, and drug-fragments, can be incorporated into the process.
Intermolecular Aryl C?H Amination through Sequential Iron and Copper Catalysis
Mostafa, Mohamed A. B.,Calder, Ewen D. D.,Racys, Daugirdas T.,Sutherland, Andrew
supporting information, p. 1044 - 1047 (2017/02/05)
A mild, efficient and regioselective method for para-amination of activated arenes has been developed through a combination of iron and copper catalysis. A diverse range of products were obtained from an operationally simple one-pot, two-step procedure involving bromination of the aryl substrate with the powerful Lewis acid iron(III) triflimide, followed by a copper(I)-catalysed N-arylation reaction. This two-step dehydrogenative process for the regioselective coupling of aromatic C?H bonds with non-activated amines was applicable to anisole-, phenol-, aniline- and acetanilide-type aryl compounds. Importantly, the arene substrates were used as the limiting reagent and required no protecting-group manipulations during the transformation.
