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Chemistry. 2016 Nov 07;22(46):16450-16454. doi: 10.1002/chem.201604293. Epub 2016 Oct 10.

One-Pot Halogen Dance/Negishi Coupling of Dibromothiophenes for Regiocontrolled Synthesis of Multiply Arylated Thiophenes.

Chemistry (Weinheim an der Bergstrasse, Germany)

Kentaro Okano, Kazuhiro Sunahara, Yoshiki Yamane, Yuki Hayashi, Atsunori Mori

Affiliations

  1. Department of Chemical Science and Engineering, Kobe University, 1-1 Rokkodai, Nada, Kobe, 657-8501, Japan. [email protected].
  2. Department of Chemical Science and Engineering, Kobe University, 1-1 Rokkodai, Nada, Kobe, 657-8501, Japan.

PMID: 27629814 DOI: 10.1002/chem.201604293

Abstract

One-pot halogen dance/Negishi cross-coupling of readily available 2,5-dibromothiophenes is described. A lithium diisopropylamide (LDA)-mediated halogen dance reaction resulted in the formation of thermodynamically stable α-lithiodibromothiophenes, which were transmetalated with ZnCl

© 2016 Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim.

Keywords: cross-coupling; halogen dance; one-pot reaction; palladium; thiophene

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