文摘
The palladium-catalysed direct coupling of aryl halides with pyrroles provides a greener access to arylated pyrroles than more classical couplings such as Suzuki, Stille or Negishi reactions. However, so far, m>Nm>H-free pyrrole and m>Nm>-tosylpyrrole gave disappointing results for such couplings either in terms of regioselectivity of the arylation, catalyst loading or substrate scope. The reactivity of both m>Nm>H-free pyrrole and m>Nm>-tosylpyrrole was studied, and the tosylated pyrrole led to higher yields of coupling products due to better conversions of the aryl bromides. A range of aryl bromides undergo regioselective coupling at C2 of m>Nm>-tosylpyrrole in moderate to good yields using 1 mol % [Pd(Cl(C3H5)]2 as the catalyst, KOAc as the base in DMAc.