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Org Lett. 2019 Nov 15;21(22):9033-9035. doi: 10.1021/acs.orglett.9b03429. Epub 2019 Nov 01.

Arylation Using Sulfonamides: Phenylacetamide Synthesis through Tandem Acylation-Smiles Rearrangement.

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Helen L Barlow, Pauline T G Rabet, Alastair Durie, Tim Evans, Michael F Greaney

Affiliations

  1. School of Chemistry , University of Manchester , Oxford Road , Manchester M13 9PL , United Kingdom.

PMID: 31674791 DOI: 10.1021/acs.orglett.9b03429

Abstract

A range of electron-poor and heterocyclic sulfonamides react with phenylacetyl chlorides to produce benzhydryl derivatives in a single step. The reaction proceeds via tandem amide bond formation/Dohmori-Smiles rearrangement under the simple conditions of an aqueous base. In the case of

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