Arylsulfinate salts

For a variety of arylsulfinate salts containing para-substituents of varying electron demand, it was shown under controlled polymerization conditions (1 M acrylamide monomer, pH 7, 4 x 10 3 M activator for methylene blue sensitization) (43b) that dye bleaching occurred with a quantum yield of 0.10-0.17 and that quantum yields for monomer loss were 1200-1700. The efficiency of the dye bleaching and the polymerization reaction increased as the electron donor ability of the sulfinate increased. ... 

Interaction of alkynyliodonium compounds with arylsulfinate salts is particularly interesting. When the R group of the alkynyl moiety lacks a y-CH bond, alkynyl sulfones (89, 90) are formed in excellent isolated yields [70, 71] [Eqs. (45), (46)]. When y-CH bonds are available, the intermediate unsaturated carbene (Scheme 3-3) prefers insertion over rearrangement and hence cyclopentenyl sulfones, 91, predominate, although some alkynyl sulfone formation is also observed as illustrated in [Eq. (47)] [72]. 

Arylalkylsulfones ate important intermediates obtained by alkylation of arylsulfinic acids. The latter ate obtained by reduction of the corresponding sulfonyl chloride. This reduction process is simple and of general appHcation involving the addition of the isolated sulfonyl chloride paste to excess aqueous sodium sulfite followed by salting-out the product and isolation. With mote rigorous reduction conditions, such as zinc/acid, sulfonyl chlorides ate reduced through to aryknercaptans, eg, 2-mercaptonaphthalene is manufactured from naphthalene-2-sulfonyl chloride. 

Scheme 13 Reaction of ( )-alkenylbismuthonium salts with sodium arylsulfinates [37]...

Sodium arylsulfinates and palladium salts react to form arylpaUadium salts and sulfur dioxide. When carried out in the presence of some dienes, stable organopalladium complexes have been obtained. For example, 1,5-cyclooctadiene and sodium p-toluenesulfinate with palladium chloride yields the a,it-complex shown in equation (48).109... 

Oxoalkyl- and 3-oxoalkyl-triphenylbismuthonium salts transfer the alkyl groups to various hetero nucleophiles such as piperidine, triphenylphosphane, arylsulfinates, alcohols, arylthiolates, dimethyl sulfide, and metal halides under mild conditions (Equation (132)).214 215 Methyl- and allyl-triphenylbismuthonium salts also alkylate some heteronucleophiles.216 The leaving ability of the triphenylbismuthonio group has been found to be higher than that of the triflate anion. 

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