Copper-catalyzed arylstannylation of arynes in a sequence

Chem Commun (Camb). 2019 Jun 11;55(46):6503-6506. doi: 10.1039/c9cc02738f. Epub 2019 May 17.

Abstract

Copper-catalyzed arylstannylation of arynes has been developed. This transformation enables variously substituted ortho-stannylbiaryls and teraryls to be constructed straightforwardly. An electron-deficient tin center is the key, and thus the single or dual insertion of arynes into arylstannanes is precisely controllable by simply changing the equivalence of aryne precursors.