A highly efficient palladium-catalyzed desulfitative arylation of azoles with sodium arylsulfinates

A highly efficient palladium-catalyzed direct desulfitative arylation of azoles at C2-position has been developed using sodium arylsulfinates as aryl sources. Azoles including benzoxazoles, benzothiazoles, oxazoles, thiazoles, and 1,3,4-oxadiazoles reacted with sodium arylsulfinates smoothly to generate the corresponding products in good to excellent yields, and various substitution patterns were tolerated toward the reaction.