C–N Coupling of nitrogen nucleophiles with aryl and heteroaryl bromides using aminoarenethiolato–copper(I) (pre-)catalyst

The activity of a library of 2-aminoarenethiolato–copper(I) (CuSAr) (pre-)catalyst was explored in the arylation reaction of amines and N-containing heterocycles with aryl and heteroaryl bromides, respectively. These CuSAr pre-catalysts are thermally stable, are soluble in common organic solvents and show good catalytic activities in these N-arylation reactions with catalyst loadings amounting to 2.5 mol %. The targeted C–N coupling products were obtained in moderate to good yields (40–97%) for a variety of substrates.