Organic Letters 2013-04-05

Palladium-catalyzed direct α-arylation of methyl sulfones with aryl bromides.

Bing Zheng, Tiezheng Jia, Patrick J Walsh

Index: Org. Lett. 15(7) , 1690-3, (2013)

Full Text: HTML

Abstract

A direct and efficient approach for palladium-catalyzed arylation of aryl and alkyl methyl sulfones with aryl bromides has been developed. The catalytic system affords arylated sulfones in good to excellent yields (73-90%).