Aryl perfluoroalkyl sulfides

Oxidation. The range of oxidation potential of HOF-MeCN has been extended to the direct preparation of epoxy carboxylic acids from alkenoic acids, oxidative cleavage of methyl ethers to ketones, and conversion of aryl perfluoroalkyl sulfides to the sulfones. ... 

Another way to prepare fluorinated sulfides is the photochemical alkylation of sulfides or disulfides by perfluoroalkyl iodides [69, 70, 71] (equations 62-64). Reaction of trifluoromethyl bromide with alkyl or aryl disulfides in the presence of a sulfur dioxide radical anion precursor, such as sodium hydroxymethanesulfi-nate, affords trifluoromethyl sulfides [72] (equation 65). 

Much of the research on the SbCls-catalyzed halogenation of arenes has focused on the chlorination and bromination of perfluoroalkyl-substituted aromatics [14]. The reaction of organic disulfides with electron-rich aromatic compounds under catalysis with SbCls and AgSbFg affords unsymmetrical aryl sulfides in modest yields [15a]. Electrophilic sulfinylation and sulfonation can be similarly effected by SbCls [15a-c]. Alkyl- and halobenzenes give thiocyano derivatives when treated with a mixture of SbCls and Pb(SCN)2 in CCI4 [16],... 

The reaction of trifluoromethyl iodide with arene thiolates provides trifluoromethyl aryl sulfides via a single electron transfer (SET) reaction rather than the SN2 reaction, which is the only formal mechanism (Scheme 2.31). In general, perfluoroalkyl (Rf—X), ferf-alkyl, and vinyl and aromatic halides are strongly deactivated for the replacement of halogens with... 

Fluoroalkyl(aryl)iodonium salts are the most stable and practically important class of alkyl(aryl)iodonium derivatives. The application of such salts as electrophilic fiuoroalkylating reagents was reviewed in 1996 by Umemoto [1017]. Perfluoroalkyl(phenyl)iodonium trifiates (FITS reagents) 764 are efficient perfluoroalky-lating reagents toward various nucleophiUe substrates, sueh as arenes, carbanions, alkynes, alkenes, carbonyl compounds, amines, phosphines and sulfides [1017]. Scheme 3.300 shows several representative examples of electrophilic perfluoroalkylations using FITS reagents. 

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