Copper-catalyzed cross-coupling of aryl- and heteroaryltriethoxysilanes with aryl and heteroaryl iodides and bromides

Copper(I)-catalyzed coupling of aryl- and heteroaryltriethoxysilanes with aryl and heteroaryl iodides is described. The transformation also proceeds with activated aryl bromides, but in this case it requires a stoichiometric amount of the catalyst for best product yields. The current reaction requires a P,N-based bidentate ligand for aryl-aryl coupling while it proceeds without external ligands for aryl-heteroaryl coupling to afford good product yields. The reaction protocol can also be applied to achieve biarylation of diiodoarenes in reasonable yields.