As part of our research, we sought an efficient route to a range of benzyloxy-substituted benzenesulfonyl chlorides of structure 1 (Scheme 1). These were required as key building blocks for array chemistry and also as protected phenolic sulfonyl chloride precusors. Few examples of benzyloxy-substituted aromatic sulfonyl chlorides are exemplified in the literature, and the current methods do not fully explore the rapid preparation of a range of substituted benzyloxy analogs across ortho, ...