Synthesis of β-keto sulfones via a multicomponent reaction through sulfonylation and decarboxylation

 

1-Phenyl-2-(phenylsulfonyl)ethan-1-one (2a) 1

1H NMR (400 MHz, CDCl3) δ 7.92 (m, 4H), 7.70 – 7.58 (m, 2H), 7.54 (t, J = 7.6 Hz, 2H), 7.48 (t, J = 7.3 Hz, 2H), 4.74 (s, 2H).

13C NMR (101 MHz, CDCl3) δ 187.9, 138.7, 135.7, 134.4, 134.2, 129.3, 129.2, 128.9, 128.6, 63.4.

References 1. Lu, Q.; Zhang, J.; Peng, P.; Zhang, G.; Huang, Z.; Yi, H.; Millercd, T. J.; Lei, A. Chem. Sci. 2015, 6, 4851.

Synthesis of β-keto sulfones via a multicomponent reaction through sulfonylation and decarboxylation

Jiyao Yu,b  Runyu Mao,a  Qingyu Wanga  and  Jie Wu*ac 

*Corresponding authors

aDepartment of Chemistry, Fudan University, 220 Handan Road, Shanghai 200433, China
E-mail: jie_wu@fudan.edu.cn

bSchool of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Georgia Institute of Technology, 901 Atlantic Drive, Atlanta, USA

cState Key Laboratory of Organometallic Chemistry, Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 345 Lingling Road, Shanghai 200032, China

Abstract

A copper(I)-catalyzed synthesis of β-keto sulfones through a multicomponent reaction of aryldiazonium tetrafluoroborates, 3-arylpropiolic acids, sulfur dioxide, and water was developed. This reaction proceeds through a tandem radical process, and the sulfonyl radical, generated from the combination of aryldiazonium tetrafluoroborates with DABCO·(SO2)2, acts as the key intermediate. The transformation involves sulfonylation and decarboxylation, which allows for the efficient synthesis of the desired β-keto sulfones.