Sulfonyl anions

In sulfoxides and sulfones an adjacent CH group is also deprotonated by strong bases. If one considers the sulfinyl (—SO—) or sulfonyl (—SOj—) groups to be functional groups, then these carbanions are d -synthons. It will be shown later (p. 48f. and 65f.), that these anions may either serve as nonfunctional, d -, d - or d -synthons. 

V,/V dipheny1ethy1enediamine. The cure mechanism probably involves an amine-catalyzed decomposition of the sulfonyl chloride group or a path of radical anions. The cross-link probably involves the HVA-2. Calcium hydroxide or other SO2 absorbers must be included for development of good mechanical properties. 

In work on 6-methoxypyrimidines (130), the 4-methylsulfonyl group was found to be displaced by the sulfanilamide anion more readily than were 4-chloro or trimethylammonio groups. This reactivity may be partly due to the nature of the nucleophile (106, Section II, D, 1). However, high reactivity of alkyl- and aryl-sulfonyl heterocycles with other nucleophiles has been observed. A 2-methylsulfonyl group on pyridine was displaced by methoxide ion with alkaline but not acidic methanol. 3,6-Bis(p-tolylsulfonyl)-pyridazine reacts (100°, 5 hr) with sulfanilamide anion and even the... 

In a further development on this theme, the thiol, 153, is first alkylated to the corresponding benzyl ether (158). Treatment with sodium methoxide removes the proton on the amide nitrogen to afford the ambient anion (159). This undergoes alkylation with methyl bromide on the ring nitrogen thus it locks amide into the imine form (160). Chlorolysis serves both to oxidize the sulfur to the sulfone stage and to cleave the benzyl ether linkage there is thus obtained the sulfonyl chloride, 161. 

The 3-nitroindoles show interesting reactivity toward the anion of ethyl isocyanoacetate iV-sulfonyl derivatives give the pyrrolo[3,3-b indole ring system lEq. 10.38. " On the other hand, iV-alkoxycarbonyl derivatives give the normal product, the pyrrolo[3,4-li indole ring system fEq, 10,39, ... 

Addition of the anion occurs anti to the bulky acctonide moiety of the 1,3-benzodioxole while alkylation of the intermediate sulfonyl anion occurs from the axial direction which ensures that the phenylsulfonyl group remains equatorial. 

Sulfonic acids themselves are unfit for electrophilic transfer of sulfonyl groups because of the poor nucleofugality of the hydroxide anion. However, the high acidity obviously leads to an equilibrium between the acids and their anhydrides and water, from which water can be removed either by special reaction conditions (i.e., azeotropic distillation with appropriate solvents) or chemically with anhydride forming agents316 (equation 63). sulfonic acid anhydride sulfonylations are compiled in Table 10. 

Similarly, enamino vinyl sulfones (345) can undergo a thermally allowed electrocyclic reaction between the termini of the enaminic double bond and the allyl sulfonyl portion in the intermediate anion (346) to afford a, /1-unsaturated thiene dioxides (348) as shown in equation 126335. 

Meyers and coworkers141 measured the pKa values of a number of arylthio-, arylsulfinyl-and arylsulfonyl-phenols. From their few results relating to the effects of 4 - R on 4-OH, Hogeveen138 inferred that relative influence of substituents was about the same in the three series, contrasting with what he had found in his various series of acrylic acids. He attributed this to the compensation of the polarizability effect (see above) by the influence of a(pd) conjugation in the anions of the sulfinyl and sulfonyl series. Meyers and coworkers141 were more interested in the effect of moving the OH from the 4- to the 2-position (see Section III.D). 

Potassium or lithium derivatives of ethyl acetate, dimethyl acetamide, acetonitrile, acetophenone, pinacolone and (trimethylsilyl)acetylene are known to undergo conjugate addition to 3-(t-butyldimethylsiloxy)-1 -cyclohexenyl t-butyl sulfone 328. The resulting a-sulfonyl carbanions 329 can be trapped stereospecifically by electrophiles such as water and methyl iodide417. When the nucleophile was an sp3-hybridized primary anion (Nu = CH2Y), the resulting product was mainly 330, while in the reaction with (trimethylsilyl)acetylide anion the main product was 331. 

This review is concerned with the formation of cation radicals and anion radicals from sulfoxides and sulfones. First the clear-cut evidence for this formation is summarized (ESR spectroscopy, pulse radiolysis in particular) followed by a discussion of the mechanisms of reactions with chemical oxidants and reductants in which such intermediates are proposed. In this section, the reactions of a-sulfonyl and oc-sulfinyl carbanions in which the electron transfer process has been proposed are also dealt with. The last section describes photochemical reactions involving anion and cation radicals of sulfoxides and sulfones. The electrochemistry of this class of compounds is covered in the chapter written by Simonet1 and is not discussed here some electrochemical data will however be used during the discussion of mechanisms (some reduction potential values are given in Table 1). 

The oxidative dimerization of the anion of methyl phenyl sulfone (from a Grignard reagent) in ethereal solution in the presence of cupric chloride in 5% yield has been reported47. Despite the reported48 poor stability of the a-sulfonyl C-centered radicals, Julia and coworkers49 provoked the dimerization (in 13 to 56% yields) of the lithiated carbanion of alkyl phenyl sulfones using cupric salts as oxidants. The best results are obtained with cupric triflates in THF-isobutyronitrile medium (56% yield for R = H). For allyl phenyl sulfones the coupling in the 3-3 mode is predominant. 

SCHEME 6. Suggested radical/anion-radical pair mechanism for the reaction of a-sulfonyl carban-ions with perhaloalkanes (CC14 as the example)553, R" = R3S02CR1R2, k2> > k. ... 

Preparation of 3-vinylindole (84) via Cope elimination of N,N-diethyltrypt-amine-N-oxide has been reported [87], An alternate approach based on the Wittig reaction of the readily accessible N-phenylsulfonylindole-3-carbalde-hyde failed because cleavage of the sulfonyl protecting group easily produced an anion whose neutralization led to polymerization [86]. 

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