Am ild visible-light-mediated strategy for cysteine arylation is presented. The method relies on the use of eosin Y as am etal-free photocatalyst and aryldiazonium salts as arylating agents.T he reaction can be significantly accelerated in amicroflowreactor,whilst allowing the in situ formation of the required diazonium salts.T he batch and flowp rotocol described herein can be applied to obtain ab road series of arylated cysteine derivatives and arylated cysteine-containing dipeptides.M oreover,t he method was applied to the chemoselective arylation of am odel peptide in biocompatible reaction conditions (room temperature,p hosphate-buffered saline (PBS) buffer) within ashort reaction time.TheformationofC À Sbonds is of high interest in the fields of organic synthesis and drug discovery.[1] However,d ue to the undesired coordination between metal catalysts and sulfur atoms,t raditional cross-coupling methods are often inadequate strategies for C À Sb ond formation.[2] Despite the undesired coordination, some transition-metal-catalyzed cross-coupling methods for C À Sb ond formation have been reported.[3] However,t hese methods often rely on high reaction temperatures and/or require stoichiometric amounts of as trong base.Awell-known strategy largely applied in industry for C À Sb ond formation is the so-called StadlerZiegler reaction, in which adiazonium salt reacts with an aryl thiolate to afford the desired thioether derivative.[4] Starting from the original conditions reported by Stadler and Ziegler, ap lethora of methodologies have emerged, allowing milder reaction conditions.[5] Among them, our group reported am ild one-pot procedure for the synthesis of arylsulfides facilitated by photoredox catalysis. [6] In the interest of developing mild methodologies for chemical biology purposes, [7] we envisaged modifying our procedure to achieve av isible-light-induced protocol for cysteine arylation. Specifically,w ed irected our attention towards the development of ab iocompatible metal-free strategy involving inexpensive organic dyes as photoredox catalysts.Inaddition, due to the incompatibility of UV light to peptides and proteins,w er easoned that visible light photoredox catalysis would be perfectly suited to chemical biology applications owing to the milder reaction conditions (e.g. room temperature and visible light).Novel selective chemical modifications of peptides and proteins are of pivotal importance for the study of proteinprotein interactions and for the development of novel bioconjugates and drug candidates.[8] Compared to other amino acids commonly targeted for post-translational modifications,c ysteinee xhibits low natural abundancya nd ar elatively high nucleophilicity.[9] Together,t hese characteristics account for the generally higher selectivity and the broad reactivity profile typical for post-translational chemical modifications involving cysteine residues.S ome of the most widespread strategies for cysteine bioconjugation include disulfide formation, [10] thiol-maleimide reactions...