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Highly Efficient and Chemoselective Tertiary and Secondary Benzylation of Thiols Catalyzed by Indium(III) Triflate
Author(s) -
Kuciński Krzysztof,
Hreczycho Grzegorz
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
european journal of organic chemistry
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.825
H-Index - 155
eISSN - 1099-0690
pISSN - 1434-193X
DOI - 10.1002/ejoc.201701007
Subject(s) - chemistry , trifluoromethanesulfonate , catalysis , nucleophile , indium , organic chemistry , leaving group , nucleophilic substitution , chemoselectivity , combinatorial chemistry
Several examples of nucleophilic substitution reactions of compounds that have good leaving groups have been previously reported, but the direct use of simple alcohols still remains a challenge because of the poor leaving ability of the hydroxy group. Herein, an efficient and highly chemoselective method for the S ‐benzylation of a wide range of aromatic and aliphatic thiols has been accomplished in the presence of catalytic amounts (0.1–0.2 mol‐%) of indium(III) triflate. Our approach is atom efficient (water is the only byproduct) and suitable to obtain the corresponding unsymmetrical thioethers in excellent yields (up to 99 %). The low loading of catalyst that are needed to obtain extraordinarily high chemoselectivities and the generality of the reaction make this approach unique.

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