High-Throughput Discovery and Evaluation of a General Catalytic Method for N-Arylation of Weakly Nucleophilic Sulfonamides

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    "title": "High-Throughput Discovery and Evaluation of a General Catalytic Method for N-Arylation of Weakly Nucleophilic Sulfonamides",
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    "summary": "Curate this paper's reaction data into a validated Open Reaction Database dataset. Org Lett 2019, DOI 10.1021/acs.orglett.9b03380. About 336 reactions. Source data: tables in the Supporting Information PDF."
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Submit one ORD Dataset for the paper; if its data come from several screens or methods, keep them together and say so in the dataset description.\n\n## Source data\n\nOrg. Lett. 2019, 21, 8981-8986 (DOI 10.1021/acs.orglett.9b03380). A targeted high-throughput experimentation campaign (about 336 reactions) identified Pd/AdBippyPhos as a general catalyst for N-arylation of weakly nucleophilic sulfonamides to N,N-diaryl sulfonamides, with ligand steric parametrisation. The tabulated HTE data is in the Supporting Information. A preprint is on ChemRxiv (DOI 10.26434/chemrxiv.9108461.v2, CC BY-NC-ND 4.0), but whether it carries the same SI is unverified. The journal article is closed access. No machine-readable data file or SMILES is known. Ligands, precatalysts and substrates must be converted to SMILES or named identifiers. Pitfalls: HTE yields are probably assay yields (HPLC or UPLC against an internal standard) and must be labelled as such, and the ligand screen and the substrate scope should be kept distinct.\n\nKnown locations:\n\n- [https://pubs.acs.org/doi/suppl/10.1021/acs.orglett.9b03380](https://pubs.acs.org/doi/suppl/10.1021/acs.orglett.9b03380): Org. Lett. 2019, 21, 8981-8986 Supporting Information (tabulated HTE data per the ORD board notes). The listing returned HTTP 403 (bot challenge). (license: ACS publisher copyright (article closed access))\n- [https://doi.org/10.26434/chemrxiv.9108461.v2](https://doi.org/10.26434/chemrxiv.9108461.v2): ChemRxiv preprint of the same work (v2, posted 2019-09-06). Whether it has SI or data files is unknown because the ChemRxiv API was behind a Cloudflare challenge. (license: CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 (per Crossref))\n\n## Pitfalls\n\nSeveral ligand screens plus substrate scope. Assay versus isolated yields must be distinguished. 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