A practical fluorosulfonylating platform via photocatalytic imidazolium-based SO<sub>2</sub>F radical reagent.
basic_science · Level V
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- Also identified by DOI 10.1038/s41467-022-31296-2 and PMC identifier 9206656.
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Abstract
Sulfonyl fluorides are key components in the fields of chemical biology, materials science and drug discovery. In this line, the highly active SO<sub>2</sub>F radical has been employed for the construction of sulfonyl fluorides, but the utilization of gaseous ClSO<sub>2</sub>F as radical precursor is limited due to the tedious and hazardous preparation. Meanwhile, the synthesis of sulfonyl fluorides from inert SO<sub>2</sub>F<sub>2</sub> gas through a fluorosulfonyl radical (·SO<sub>2</sub>F) process has met with inevitable difficulties due to the high homolytic bond dissociation energy of the S(VI)-F bond. Here we report a radical fluorosulfonylation strategy for the stereoselective synthesis of alkenyl sulfonyl fluorides and functional alkyl sulfonyl fluorides with an air-stable crystalline benzimidazolium fluorosulfonate cationic salt reagent. This bench-stable redox-active reagent offers a useful and operational protocol for the radical fluorosulfonylation of unsaturated hydrocarbons with good yield and high stereoselectivity, which can be further transformed into valuable functional SO<sub>2</sub>F moieties.