A new strategy for the synthesis of benzylic sulfonamides: palladium-catalyzed arylation and sulfonamide metathesis.

Jonathan B Grimm, Matthew H Katcher, David J Witter, Alan B Northrup

Index: J. Org. Chem. 72(21) , 8135-8, (2007)

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Abstract

An efficient two-step strategy has been developed to access diversely functionalized benzylic sulfonamides. Execution of this strategy required the development of two reaction methods: the palladium-catalyzed cross-coupling of aryl halides with CH-acidic methanesulfonamides and a metathesis reaction between the resulting alpha-arylated sulfonamides and diverse amines. The broad scope of the cross-coupling process combined with a versatile sulfonamide metathesis constitutes an efficient strategy for the synthesis of various benzylic sulfonamides.