title: Facile dearomatizing radical arylation of furan and thiophene.
abstract: In the presence of catalytic diphenyl diselenide, reduced in situ to benzeneselenol, tributyltin hydride and V-70 promote the addition of aryl iodides to furan and thiophene. The adduct radicals are trapped by the selenol to give the 2-aryl-2,3-dihydro and 2-aryl-2,5-dihydro heterocyclic products. When the iodide is an o-iodophenol, a cyclization follows the radical addition and provides bridged bicyclic acetals. [reaction: see text]
authors.affiliation: Department of Chemistry, University of Illinois at Chicago, 845 West Taylor Street, Chicago, IL 60607-7061, USA. dcrich@uic.edu
authors.forename: David
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Crich
authors.forename: Mitesh
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Patel