Reductive dehalogenation and dehalogenative sulfonation of phenols and heteroaromatics with sodium sulfite in an aqueous medium

Prototropic tautomerism was used as a tool for the reductive dehalogenation of (hetero)aryl bromides and iodides, or dehalogenative sulfonation of (hetero)aryl chlorides and fluorides, using sodium sulfite as the sole reagent in an aqueous medium.