Synthesis of α-Aryl Primary Amides from α-Silyl Nitriles and Aryl Sulfoxides through [3,3]-Sigmatropic Rearrangement

Fan Luo; Hui Zhou; Xiao Bei Chen; Xue Jun Liu; Xiao Dong Chen; Peng Fei Qian; Xin Ping Wu; Wei Wang; Shi Lei Zhang

doi:10.1021/acs.orglett.2c00334

Synthesis of α-Aryl Primary Amides from α-Silyl Nitriles and Aryl Sulfoxides through [3,3]-Sigmatropic Rearrangement

Fan Luo
, Hui Zhou
, Xiao Bei Chen
, Xue Jun Liu
, Xiao Dong Chen
, Peng Fei Qian
, Xin Ping Wu
, Wei Wang
, Shi Lei Zhang

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A simple and efficient protocol was developed for the preparation of challenging α-aryl primary amides. This metal-free coupling process was triggered by TfOH-promoted electrophilic activation of α-silyl nitrile to generate keteniminium ion species, followed by reaction with aryl sulfoxide through [3,3]-sigmatrophic rearrangement to provide the target product. To the best of our knowledge, α-silyl nitrile has been rarely used as a pro-electrophilic reagent. Computational investigations confirmed the transient existence of a highly electrophilic keteniminium intermediate.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	1700-1705
Number of pages	6
Journal	Organic Letters
Volume	24
Issue number	8
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.orglett.2c00334
State	Published - Mar 4 2022

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Synthesis of α-Aryl Primary Amides from α-Silyl Nitriles and Aryl Sulfoxides through [3,3]-Sigmatropic Rearrangement

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