posted on 2012-11-16, 00:00authored byChao Zhou, Qingjiang Liu, Yaming Li, Rong Zhang, Xinmei Fu, Chunying Duan
An efficient Pd-catalyzed desulfitative coupling reaction
of sodium
arylsulfinates as arylation reagents by C–O bond cleavage of
aryl triflates was developed. With only 2 mol % of Pd(OAc)2 as catalyst and XPhos as ligand, the reaction proceeded well for
a range of substrates.