Robust, scalable construction of an electrophilic deuterated methylthiolating reagent: facile access to SCD3-containing scaffolds

Abstract

We have established a practical and concise method for the straightforward access of a universal deuterated methylthiolating reagent through a one-pot gram-scale operation under mild conditions. This odourless electrophilic SCD₃ reagent was widely applied to react with numerous representative nucleophiles and approached various valuable SCD₃ analogues with excellent levels of deuterium content (>99% D). The divergent further transformations were smoothly carried out to obtain the significant derivatives with different oxidative states in high efficiency.