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Disulfides as efficient thiolating reagents enabling selective bis-sulfenylation of aryl dihalides under mild copper-catalyzed conditions

Y Liu, H Wang, J Zhang, JP Wan, C Wen

Index: Liu, Yunyun; Wang, Hang; Zhang, Jida; Wan, Jie-Ping; Wen, Chengping RSC Advances, 2014 , vol. 4, # 37 p. 19472 - 19475

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Abstract

Selective bis-sulfenylation reactions of aryl dihalides have been achieved by copper- catalyzed C–S coupling reactions under mild conditions of refluxing EtOH (80° C). Employment of disulfides as thiolating reagents enables the production of various bis (phenylthio) benzenes with excellent selectivity, and no products from mono C–S coupling are isolated.