Nature Communications (Sep 2020)
Regioselective functionalization of aryl azoles as powerful tool for the synthesis of pharmaceutically relevant targets
Abstract
Aryl azoles are common scaffolds in pharmaceutically relevant molecules. Here, the authors report the mild and highly regioselective ortho magnesiation of aryl azoles using a tailored magnesium amide base in hydrocarbon solvents followed by an efficient Pd-catalyzed arylation.