In the present work, we have developed a practical methodology for the hydrodehalogenation of o-haloanilides using PdCl2 at 100 °C under mild conditions in water. The catalytic system could selectively dehalogenate both aryl chloride and aryl bromide and exhibit a broad functional group tolerance.
A new ortho-chlorination system consisting of zinc(II) and hypervalent iodine(III) reagent was developed for ortho-chlorination of amides, and the desired products were obtained in moderate to good yields (38-85%). This highly facile and convenient methodology is tolerant of aromatic amide and alkyl amide with diverse substituted groups. A plausible mechanism has been illustrated, in which carbocation rearrangement and metal salt coordinate facilitated orthochlorination are involved.