Chemical synthesis study demonstrates scalable production of 2-pyridylsulfur pentafluorides from disulfides, highlighting a streamlined route to fluorinated heterocycles.
Current approaches to prepare SF5‐substituted heterocycles during the synthesis of targeted heterocyclic compounds require the use of SF5‐functionalized aryl or alkyne reagents or SF5Cl as a source of the SF5 functional group. Herein we report that excess oxidative fluorination of 2,2′‐dipyridyl disulfide with a KF/Cl2/MeCN system leads to the formation of thirteen new 2‐pyridylsulfur chlorotetrafluorides (2‐SF4Cl‐pyridines). These molecules are found to undergo further chlorine–fluorine exchange reactions by treatment with silver(I) fluoride enabling ready access to a series of ten new substituted 2‐pyridylsulfur pentafluorides (2‐SF5‐pyridines). This is the first preparatively simple and readily scalable example of the transformation of an existing heterocyclic sulfur functionality to prepare SF5‐substituted heterocycles.
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