Aryl diazonium salt and thioacetamide: a catalyst free, efficient blend of an inexpensive arylating agent with “S” surrogate for sulphide synthesis

Abstract

Novel, facile C–S and S–S bond coupling reactions were achieved by using an aryl diazonium salt as an arylating agent and thioacetamide as a sulphur surrogate. The reaction proceeds smoothly at room temperature without using any transition metal catalyst, ligand or base. Aryl diazonium salts undergo rapid reactions with thioacetamide at room temperature to give the desired products in a much shorter period than the previously reported metal catalysed protocols.