Abstract
Aryl sulfones and aryl sulfonamides are of great importance in organic synthesis and medicinal chemistry. Although ortho-C-H functionalization of aryl sulfonyl compounds has been extensively explored, the functionalization of remote meta- and para-C-H bonds is very rare. Herein, we report a tunable meta- and para-selective C-H borylation of aryl sulfonyl compounds enabled by computationally designed ligands and iridium catalyst. This method is capable of accommodating a broad range of substrates under mild reaction conditions. Gram-scale preparation can be achieved with iridium catalyst loading as low as 0.1 mol%. As the introduced boronate group can be easily converted into many other groups, our method provides a general solution to installing functional groups at either meta- or para-position of aryl sulfones and aryl sulfonamides with good to excellent selectivity.
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