Visible light-promoted difluoromethylthiolation of aryldiazonium salts

Org Biomol Chem. 2018 Nov 14;16(44):8565-8568. doi: 10.1039/c8ob02431f.

Abstract

Difluoromethylthiolation of aryldiazonium salts under photocatalytic conditions with a shelf-stable, easily prepared and inexpensive reagent, PhSO2SCF2H was described. A variety of difluoromethylthioethers were obtained utilizing aryldiazonium salts containing different functional groups. Aryldiazonium salts with a heteroarene moiety were tolerated. Fluorescence quenching experiments indicated that both oxidative and reductive quenching cycles occurred during this process.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't