Carbon–Sulfur Bond Formation of Challenging Substrates at Low Temperature by Using Pd‐PEPPSI‐IPent

Aryl thiols made cool and quick: The coupling of alkyl, aryl, and silyl thiols to hindered, deactivated aryl bromides and chlorides has been achieved under the most mild temperatures yet reported (i.e., room temperature to 40 °C). The bulk afforded by the di-2,6-(3-propylphenyl)imidazolium-derived Pd-PEPPSI-IPent catalyst is believed to actively promote the critical reductive elimination step of the catalytic cycle, thereby eliminating the formation of poisonous off-cycle dimeric resting states that have plagued Pd-catalyzed sulfination reactions.