Jun Wei, Kun Bao, Yuan Wang, Rong Sheng and Jinbo Hu
Org. Biomol. Chem., 2020,18, 4556-4559
DOI:
10.1039/D0OB00872A,
Communication
The electrophilic difluoromethylthiolation of indoles with 2-BTSO2CF2H is developed. In the presence of (EtO)2P(O)H and TMSCl, the reaction proceeded under mild conditions to give products in modest to high yields. This is a new application of 2-BTSO2CF2H for electrophilic difluoromethylthiolation.