Desulfuration-dimerization

Desulfuration-dimerization of dithioketals.1 Dithioketals when refluxed with W(CO)6 in chlorobenzene are converted into the corresponding dimeric alkenes. 

Diethyl-l,2,3,4,5-benzopentathiepin was photolyzed by a 100 W high-pressure mercury lamp in CH2CI2 under an argon atmosphere to produce 1,4,6,9-tetraethylthianthrene by way of desulfurization, dimerization, and ring contraction reactions <2002BCJ2647>. 

The most important reaction with Lewis acids such as boron trifluoride etherate is polymerization (Scheme 30) (72MI50601). Other Lewis acids have been used SnCL, Bu 2A1C1, Bu sAl, Et2Zn, SO3, PFs, TiCU, AICI3, Pd(II) and Pt(II) salts. Trialkylaluminum, dialkylzinc and other alkyl metal initiators may partially hydrolyze to catalyze the polymerization by an anionic mechanism rather than the cationic one illustrated in Scheme 30. Cyclic dimers and trimers are often products of cationic polymerization reactions, and desulfurization of the monomer may occur. Polymerization of optically active thiiranes yields optically active polymers (75MI50600). 

In the desulfurization of 3-substituted thiophenes several stereoisomers may be formed in certain cases. Both meso and racemic compounds have been obtained from the desulfurization of 3,4-diaryl-substituted thiophenes. It is claimed, however, that only meso, -diphenyladipic acid is obtained upon desulfurization of 3,4-di-phenyl-2,5-thiophenedicarboxylic acid and only di-isoleucin from 3-thienylglycine. The formation of small amounts of dimeric products in the desulfurization has been discussed with reference to the mechanism of this reaction. ... 

Tlie desulfurization of thiono compounds is another frequently used synthetic approach for the formation of double bonds via carbenoid intermediates. By this methodology, some indigoid 1,3,5,7-tetraazafulvalenes 88 and 90 were synthesized (83BSB781 90JPR949).Tliis dimerization starting from 2,4,5-tris(dimethylamino)imidazolium chloride via the appropriate thione 87 has been realized in the presence of phosphanes or phosphites to... 

Irradiation of matrix-isolated imidazole-2-carboxylic acid gave the 2,3-dihydro-imidazol-2-ylidene-C02 complex (31) characterized by IR spectroscopy and calculated to lie 15.9 kcal mol above the starting material. A series of non-aromatic nucleophilic carbenes (32) were prepared by desulfurization of the corresponding thiones by molten potassium in boiling THF. The most hindered of the series (32 R = Bu) is stable indefinitely under exclusion of air and water and can be distilled without decomposition. The less hindered carbenes slowly dimerize to the corresponding alkenes. Stable aminoxy- and aminothiocarbenes (33 X = O, S) were prepared by deprotonation of iminium salts with lithium amide bases. The carbene carbon resonance appears at 260-297 ppm in the NMR spectrum and an X-ray structure determination of an aminooxycarbene indicated that electron donation from the nitrogen is more important than that from oxygen. These carbenes do not dimerize. 

Desulfurization of sulfur compounds 4-38 Decarboxylative dimerization (Kolbe)... 

The desulfurization of 2-substituted 4-methyl-2//-thiopyrans, accompanied by dimerization of primary intermediates, is caused by ZnHg. This approach was explored for the synthesis of polyenes,183-186 including / -carotene (Eq. 24a). 

Raney nickel reduction of 2-benzyl-5-ethylselenophene (71) yields 1-phenylheptane (72), a conversion analogous to the much used reductive desulfurization of thiophenes (73JGU871). The electrochemical reduction of selenophene-2-carboxylic acid gives a mixture of dimeric products the major product is compound (73). This is in contrast to the 2,5-dihydro derivatives obtained by electrochemical reduction of thiophene and furan carboxylic acids (82CS( 19)95). Wolff-Kishner reduction of 2-selenienyl 2 -thienyl ketone gives, in addition to the expected methylene derivative, 2-(pentenyl)thiophene (72ZOB1780). 

For E = Pb, neither base-stabilized nor base-free derivatives have been isolated so far. The plumbanethione 123 could be indeed prepared by desulfurization of the respective tetrathiaplumbolane at —78 °C and trapped with several reagents, but has not been isolated to date. Instead, at ambient conditions the plumbylene 124 and the head-to-tail dimer, the 1,3,2,4-dithiadiplumbetane 125, is obtained (equation 16)165. 

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