Negishi cross-coupling of arenediazonium o-benzenedisulfonimides

C-N, C-O and C-S Ullmann-Type Coupling Reactions of Arenediazonium o-Benzenedisulfonimides

Arenediazonium o-benzenedisulfonimides have been used as efficient electrophilic partners in Cu(I) catalysed Ullmann-type coupling. The synthetic protocols are mild and easy, and produced either N-alkylanilines, aryl ethers, or thioethers in fairly good yields (18 positive examples, average yield 66%). o-Benzenedisulfonimide was recovered at the end of the reactions and was reused to prepare the starting salts for further reactions. It is noteworthy that diazonium salts have been used as electrophilic partners in the Ullmann-type protocol for the first time.

Biaryl synthesis with arenediazonium salts: cross-coupling, CH-arylation and annulation reactions

The rich legacy of arenediazonium salts in the synthesis of unsymmetrical biaryls, built around the seminal works of Pschorr, Gomberg and Bachmann more than a century ago, continues to make important contributions at various evolutionary stages of modern biaryl synthesis. Based on in-depth mechanistic analysis and design of novel pathways and reaction conditions, the scope of biaryl synthesis with arenediazonium salts has enormously expanded in recent years through applications of transition metal/photoredox-catalysed cross-coupling, thermal/photosensitized radical chain CH-arylation of (hetero)arenes and arylative radical annulation reactions with alkynes. These recent developments have provided facile synthetic access to a wide variety of unsymmetrical biaryls of pharmaceutical, agrochemical and optoelectronic importance with green scale-up options and created opportunities for late-stage modification of peptides, nucleosides, carbon nanotubes and electrodes, the details of which are captured in this review.

Gold catalyzed Heck-coupling of arenediazonium o-benzenedisulfonimides

An efficient gold catalyzed Heck coupling of arenediazonium o-benzenedisulfonimides is proposed. An o-benzenedisulfonimide anion enables a radical pathway that does not require the presence of photocatalysts or external oxidants.

Copper-free Sandmeyer cyanation of arenediazonium o-benzenedisulfonimides

The first example of a copper-free Sandmeyer cyanodediazoniation carried out using arenediazonium o-benzenedisulfonimide and tetrabutylammonium cyanide is reported in this paper.