Benzo thiophenes, aryl preparations

The synthesis of benzo[6]thiophenes by the PPA-promoted cyclization of (arylthio)acetaldehyde dimethyl or diethyl acetals [Eq. (4)] was introduced by Tilak287, 288 in 1950 and improved in 1951.289 The acetals are readily prepared from aryl mercaptans and bromo-acetaldehyde dimethyl (or diethyl) acetal in the presence of sodium ethoxide, or by reaction of an aryllithium compound with [(MeO)2CHCH2S]2.290 Diethyl acetal as starting material sometimes gives better yields of product than the corresponding dimethyl acetal.291 Optimum yields of benzo[6]thiophenes are obtained when cyclization of the acetals is carried out under reduced pressure so that the lower boiling benzo[6]thiophenes distill as soon as they are formed. Experimental conditions for obtaining optimum yields vary from case... 

The compounds (535) and (536) have been prepared through the condensation of 3-bromo-3-methyl-2-butanone with 2- and 3-thienylammonium hexachlorostannates in the presence of zinc chloride. Benzo[A]thieno-[3,2- )]indoles (537) have been prepared by reductive cyclization of 2-aryl-3-nitrobenzo[6]thiophens with triethyl phosphite. The parent heterocycle was also obtained from 2-(o-nitrophenyl)benzo[6]thiophen with triethyl phosphite and by heating 3-azido-2-phenyl- or 2-(o-azidophenyl)-benzo[6]-thiophen in diglyme. ... 

C2-Arylated 1,3-Azoles In 1998, Miura reported the first example of the catalytic C-H arylation of (benzo)azoles and thiophenes (at their C2 position) with aryl halides [98, 99a]. In the presence of catalytic Pd(OAc)2 and stoichiometric carbonate base at high temperature (140 °C), 1,3-azoles (oxazoles, N-alkylated imidazoles, fhiazoles) were coupled with various aryl bromides selectively at the C2 position. For the reactions of N-alkylated benzimidazoles, benzoxazoles, and benzothiazoles, addition of Cul was necessary to increase the yield of products. Furthermore, when N-methylbenzimidazole was used, Miura discovered that the coupling with aryl bromides proceeds without the palladium catalyst (i.e., by a copper-mediated C-H/C-X coupling of azoles with aryl halides). Thereafter, Miura enhanced the efficiency of the coupling reaction to allow for multiple arylations of azoles both C2 and C5 positions [99b]. In 2000, Rondo [100] prepared polymer-supported aryl iodides, with which the direct coupling reaction with 1,3-azoles (Miura s conditions) was conducted. 

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