The first metal‐free procedure for the synthesis of arylsulfonyl fluorides is reported. Under organo‐photoredox conditions, aryl diazonium salts react with a readily available SO2 source (DABSO) to afford the desired product through simple nucleophilic fluorination. The reaction tolerates the presence of both electron‐rich and ‐poor aryls and demonstrated a broad functional group tolerance. To shed the light on the reaction mechanism, several experimental techniques were combined, including fluorescence, NMR, and EPR spectroscopy as well as DFT calculations.
The goal of this mini-review is to shed the light on the existing methodologies to access arylsulfonyl fluorides. Today, a plethora of methods making use of a different pool of starting materials and in the presence of catalyst or under catalyst free conditions are disclosed in the literature.
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