Electrochemically Enabled Sulfonylation of Alkynes with Sodium Sulfinates
Xiangtai Meng, Hehua Xu, Xiaoji Cao, Xu-Min Cai, Jinyue Luo, Fei Wang and Shenlin Huang*
*College of Chemical Engineering, Nanjing Forestry University, Nanjing 210037, P. R. China, Email: shuangnjfu.edu.cn
X. Meng, H. Xu, X. Cao, X.-M. Cai, J. Luo, F. Wang, S. Huang, Org. Lett., 2020, 22, 6827-6831.
DOI: 10.1021/acs.orglett.0c02341
Abstract
An electrochemical sulfonylation of alkynes with sodium sulfinates occurs efficiently under transition-metal-free, external oxidant-free, and base-free conditions at room temperature and furnishes diverse alkynyl sulfones in satisfactory yield with broad functional group tolerance.
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Key Words
alkynyl sulfones, electrochemistry
ID: J54-Y2020