79916-85-1Relevant academic research and scientific papers
Cobalt-Catalyzed Redox-Neutral Sulfonylative Coupling from (Hetero)aryl Boronic Acids, Ammonium Salts and Potassium Metabisulfite
Fan, Qiangwen,Le, Zhang-Gao,Xie, Zongbo,Yang, Liu,Zhang, Yingying,Zhu, Haibo
, (2022/01/08)
An efficient cobalt-catalyzed redox-neutral sulfonylative coupling to afford (hetero)aryl alkyl sulfones from boronic acids, ammonium salts and potassium metabisulfite has been realized. Commercially available and air-stable CoCl2, in combination with phenanthroline ligand, is sufficient to achieve rapid and high-yielding conversion of the reactants into the corresponding sulfones. This practical transformation proceeds smoothly through C?N bond cleavage under redox-neutral catalytic conditions and shows broad functional-group tolerance. Other carbon based electrophiles, including diaryliodonium salts, heteroaryl halides, and carbonates were compatible. Further transformation of aryl alkyl sulfones then allows conversion into olefins, alkenyl sulfones and halogenated sulfones, respectively, in a one-pot process.
Alkyl Halides via Visible Light Mediated Dehalogenation
Rathnayake, Manjula D.,Weaver, Jimmie D.
supporting information, p. 9681 - 9687 (2019/11/28)
Net selective bromination and chlorination of activated C-H bonds can be effected in generally high yield via a simple perhalogenation/dehalogenation sequence. The photochemical reductions require no photocatalyst, relying instead on the formation of an electron donor-acceptor complex of the substrate and reductant, or alternatively autophotocatalysis. Some reactions proceed despite any apparent photon absorption, serving as a cautionary tale for other photochemical reactions involving amines. Mechanistic experiments provide an explanation for this observation.
Controlled α-mono- and α,α-di-halogenation of alkyl sulfones using reagent-solvent halogen bonding
Poteat, Christopher M.,Lindsay, Vincent N. G.
supporting information, p. 2912 - 2915 (2019/03/17)
The direct and selective α-mono-bromination of alkyl sulfones was achieved through base-mediated electrophilic halogenation. The appropriate combination of solvent and electrophilic bromine source was found to be critical to control the nature of the products formed, where reagent-solvent halogen bonding is proposed to control the selectivity via alteration of the effective size of the electrophilic bromine source. Conversely, the α,α-di-brominated sulfones were selectively obtained in good yields following polyhalogenation followed by selective de-halogenation during workup. Both procedures can be applied on gram scale, and the mono-halogenation was successfully extended to the fully selective α-chlorination, α-iodination and α-fluorination of alkyl sulfones.
Unexpected differences in the α-halogenation and related reactivity of sulfones with perhaloalkanes in KOH-t-BuOH
Meyers, Cal Y.,Chan-Yu-King, Roch,Hua, Duy H.,Kolb, Vera M.,Matthews, Walter S.,Parady, Thomas E.,Horii, Toyokazu,Sandrock, Paul B.,Hou, Yuqing,Xie, Songwen
, p. 500 - 511 (2007/10/03)
Most alkyl phenyl sulfones are readily α-chlorinated with CCl4 and α-brominated with CBrCl3 in KOH-t-BuOH via radical-anion radical pair (RARP) reactions. While isopropyl mesityl sulfone (4) is easily α-chlorinated with CCl4, it was completely recovered when treated with the more reactive CBrCl3. Subsequent investigations showed the latter result to be due to the poor acidity of 4 together with the rapid depletion of CBrCl3 and KOH by their reaction with each other, and led to a variety of other important results. 4-Hydroxyphenyl isopropyl sulfone (6) is unreactive with either CCl4 or CBrCl3 in KOH-t-BuOH, its phenoxide anion strongly reducing the electronegativity of the sulfonyl group, thereby inhibiting α-anion formation. This effect is reversed by the electron-withdrawing influence of two α-phenyls, so that benzhydryl 4-hydroxyphenyl sulfone (8) is readily α-halogenated in KOH-t-BuOH with CCl4 or CBrCl3. On further contact with KOH-t-BuOH the α-halogenated sulfones from 8 are decomposed into benzophenone and phenol. While the α-halogenated derivatives of 4-methoxyphenyl benzhydryl sulfone (9) are stable to base, they are decomposed even under mildly acidic conditions into 4-methoxyphenyl 4-methoxybenzenethiolsulfonate (9c), phenol, and benzophenone. Mono-α-halogenation of benzyl phenyl sulfone (10) enhances the rate of the subsequent halogenation, so that α,α-dihalogenation is attained while much substrate is still present and the mono-α-halogenated product is not detected. The ease of reductive debromination of α-bromo sulfones with Cl3C- was correlated with the stability of the formed α-anions, explaining the success with α-bromobenzylic sulfones but failure with α-bromoalkyl sulfones. In the presence of air and the absence of competing halogenation, formation of the α-anions of alkyl aryl sulfones is quickly accompanied by oxidative cleavage by atmospheric O2, leading to the formation of arenesulfonyl alcohols, arenesulfonyl halides, and haloarenes.
Chlorinations with Carbon Tetrachloride under Conditions of Phase Transfer Catalysis
Lauritzen, Stein Erik,Roemming, Christian,Skatteboel, Lars
, p. 263 - 268 (2007/10/02)
Anion of ketones, sulfones and esters were α-chlorinated by carbon tetrachloride under conditions of phase transfer catalysis (PTC).Alcohols were unreactive.The observed products show that secondary reactions took place in many cases.The chlorination of the sulfone cis-2,5-diphenyltetrahydrothiophene-1,1-dioxide (1) occurred with inversion to give trans-2,5-dichloro-2,5-diphenyltetrahydrothiophene-1,1-dioxide (2).The structures of cis-1 and trans-2 were determined by X-ray diffraction.The reaction conditions are also applicable to brominations using bromotrichloromethane.
