Reductive thiolation and oxidative dehydroaromatization of cyclohexanones with primary amines and sodium sulfinates to access <i>o</i>-sulfanylanilines

Abstract

HI-promoted cascade reactions of cyclohexanones with primary amines and sodium sulfinates are described, providing an unprecedented method to access o -sulfanylanilines using cyclohexanones as an aryl source and sodium sulfinates as a sulfenylating reagent.