Scalable, Chemoselective Nickel Electrocatalytic Sulfinylation of Aryl Halides with SO 2 .
Terry Shing-Bong LouYu KawamataTamara EwingGuillermo A Correa-OteroMichael R CollinsPhil S BaranPublished in: Angewandte Chemie (International ed. in English) (2022)
Simple access to aryl sulfinates from aryl iodides and bromides is reported using an inexpensive Ni-electrocatalytic protocol. The reaction exhibits a broad scope, uses stock solution of simple SO 2 as sulfur source, and can be scaled up in batch and recycle flow settings. The limitations of this reaction are clearly shown and put into context by benchmarking with state-of-the-art Pd-based methods.