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Chao Li1, Yinghui Yang1, Xianyue Xiong1
1Key Laboratory of Green and Precise Synthetic Chemistry and Applications, Ministry of Education; Anhui Provincial Key Laboratory of Synthetic Chemistry and Applications; College of Chemistry and Materials Science, Huaibei Normal University, Huaibei, Anhui 235000, P. R. China.
Abstract:
Herein, we report a catalyst-free sulfonylation of methylenecyclopropanes (MCPs) with thianthrenium salts via electron donor-acceptor complex (EDA) activation, enabling the regioselective functionalization of the unsaturated C═C bond and the three-membered ring unit. The tunable sulfonylation does not require any photocatalysts and generates a series of sulfonyl products in moderate to good yields. Mechanistic experiments indicate that the electron donor-acceptor complexes formed between DABCO and thianthrenium salts are crucial for the trapping of SO2 as well as the following regioselective sulfonylation of alkene and cyclopropane units of the MCPs.
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