An efficient, transition-metal-free procedure for the N-arylation of amines 1 has been achieved by allowing those substrates to react with o-silylaryl triflate 2 in the presence of CsF. Good to excellent yields of arylated products 3 are obtained under very mild reaction conditions. This chemistry readily tolerates a variety of functional groups.
As a part of a research program related to the synthetic study of pharmacologically and photoconductively interesting pyrrole derivatives, we have synthesized 1-arylpyrroles (3a-e), 9-arylcarbazoles (4a-e), aminophenylpyrroles (6a,b), dipyrrolylbenzenes (7a-c), 2,4,6-tri-pyrrol-1yl-pyrimidine (8) and 2,4,6-tri-pyrrol-1-yl[1,3,5]triazine (9). We proposed a plausible mechanism for the formation of 9-arylcarbazole.
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