Exogenous-oxidant-free electrochemical oxidative C-H sulfonylation of arenes/heteroarenes with hydrogen evolution

Chem Commun (Camb). 2018 Oct 9;54(81):11471-11474. doi: 10.1039/c8cc06451b.

Abstract

An efficient and environmentally benign electrochemical oxidative radical C-H sulfonylation of arenes/heteroarenes was developed in this work. A series of significant diarylsulfones were prepared under mild catalyst- and exogenous-oxidant-free reaction conditions, which efficiently avoid the issues of desulfonylation or over-reduction of sulfonyl groups.