Diaryl sulfide

At 550—600°C, hydrogen sulfide reacts with chloroaromatic compounds forming thiophenols and diaryl sulfides (115) ... 

Diaryl sulfides can be prepared by treating aromatic compounds with SCI, and a Friedel-Crafts catalyst. Other reagents that can bring about the same result are S2CI2, thionyl chloride, and even sulfur itself. A catalyst is not always necessary. 

When thionyl chloride is used, diaryl sulfoxides are usually the main products. Unsymmetrical diaryl sulfides can be obtained by treatment of an aromatic compound with an aryl sulfenyl chloride (ArSCl) in the presence of a trace amount of iron powder.Aromatic amines and phenols can be alkylthiolated (giving mostly ortho product) by treatment with an alkyl disulfide and a Lewis acid catalyst. With certain substrates (primary amines with a chloro group, or a group not replaceable by chloro, in the para position), treatment with S2CI2 and NaOH gives thiophenolate salts ... 

Aryl thiolates react with aryl diazonium ions to give diaryl sulfides. This reaction is believed to be a radical chain process, similar to the mechanism for reaction of... 

Several palladium catalysts for formation of aryl sulfides from aryl halides have been investigated more recently. A combination of Pd2(dba)3 and DPEphos catalyzed the formation of a broad range of diaryl sulfides in the presence of 1 mol.% palladium and NaO-t-Bu base in toluene solvent.12,rThe highest yields of alkyl aryl sulfides were obtained from aryl triflates and n-butyl thiol catalyzed by a combination of palladium acetate and BINAP. However, these reactions contained 10 mol.% catalyst, were long, and required deactivated aryl triflates. A combination of Pd2(dba)3 and DPPF catalyzed the coupling of thiols with resin-bound aryl halides.121... 

Et3SiH/TFA reduces disulfides to the corresponding mercaptans in modest yields (Eq. 340).564 Naphthyl thio ethers are reduced in rather poor yields to tetrahydronaphthalene with the combination EtjSiH/HF -OfE (Eq. 341).263 There is one report of the reduction of a diaryl sulfide to the hydrocarbon but the yield... 

Interaction of substituted arenediazonium salts with potassium O. O-diphenylphosphorodithioates gave a series of solid diazonium salts which decomposed explosively when heated dry [10], The unique failure of diazotised anthranilic acid solutions to produce any explosive sulfide derivatives under a variety of conditions has been investigated and discussed [6]. Preparation of diaryl sulfides from interaction of diazonium and thiophenoxide salts led to violent explosions, attributed to presence of some arenediazo sulfide during subsequent distillation of the diaryl sulfides. Precautions are detailed [11]. A safe method of preparation of diaryl sulfides from diazonium tetralluoroborates and sodium benzenethiolate in DMF is now available [12],... 

The final products of oxidation of diarylselenides and tellurides (and sulfides as well) in the presence of nucleophiles are the corresponding chalcogen (IV) compounds. In the presence of water, the selenoxide or telluroxide (or the corresponding dihydroxy selenane or tellurane) is the final product. This still leaves several possible pathways, leveraged from early mechanistic studies done using electrochemical techniques on diaryl sulfides and outlined by Engman (Fig. 32). In these pathways, the initial radical cation can react with a nucleophile present in solution, or the dication resulting from further oxidation or disproportionation can do so. 

At the time of the earlier review (66HC1155), it was already known that combinations of arenes with sulfur, or with sulfur mono- or dichlorides in the presence of Lewis acids (IV,B,1), or of aryl thiols, diaryl sulfides, or disulfides (IV,B,2 and 3) again heated with Lewis acid catalysts, generate thianthrenes, sometimes in acceptable preparative yields. A complimentary method is the treatment of aryl thiols with c. H2SO4. Routes from arenes and aryl thiols almost certainly involve the initial formation of diaryl sulfides. All these methods inevitably give symmetrical thianthrenes carrying identical substituents on each benzene ring (Scheme 9), unless the second sulfur is introduced in a controlled fashion into a preformed, unsymmetrical diphenyl sulfide. 

A detailed study of the interaction of diaryl sulfides with AICI3 (unsubstituted and p-chloro, methoxy, and fluoro) at -60°C showed the corresponding thianthrene radical ions(H-) to have been formed. Bis (4-nitrophenyl)disulfide produced thianthrene radical ion(l-l-) itself. The... 

Di-/erJ-butylthianthrene and 1,3,6,8-tetra-tert-butylthianthrene were obtained from the diaryl sulfides in moderate yields by reaction with c. H2SO4 in nitromethane (68CB2956). A modified diaryl disulfide approach was based on intramoleculeir free radical substitution an o-phenoxy- (95% yield) or o-phenylthio-substituent (40% yield) being displaced as a radical (75G841). 

It has been shown that a phase-transfer catalyst could control the oxidation of sulfide to the corresponding sulfoxide. Thus, the oxidation of diaryl sulfides to sulfoxides using Oxone and PTC (equation 54) is in contrast with the reaction in polar solvents without PTC which gives sulfones as a major product. 

Various alkyl aryl and diaryl sulfides were oxidized selectively to the corresponding sulfoxides in high yields as the major products using sulfonylperoxy intermediate 51 (equation 86) ". ... 

Dichloropyridine-4-carboxaldehyde reacts with thiophenol to produce a diaryl sulfide. The diaryl compound and methyl thioglycolate undergo an aldol-type cyclization reaction in the presence of a weak base to afford 4-substituted thieno[2,3-f]pyridine derivative 121 (Scheme 38) <2002JOC943>. 

Aryl ethers. Unlike other Bi(V) arylaling reagents, this reagent converts phenols into unsymmetrical diaryl ethers (equation 1). Yields are in the range 50-75%. Yields are improved if the phenol is treated first with Bi(C6H5)s and then with TFA. The reagent also converts aryl thiols into mixed diaryl sulfides. 

Deoxygenation of the diaryl sulfide (56) with triethyl phosphite gives the phenothiazine (58) in good yield via formation and rearrangement of the spiro intermediate (57). 

Naphthothiophenes were obtained in much better yields by photocyclization of naphthyl vinyl sulfides (78JA2140), as were substituted dibenzothiophenes from diaryl sulfides (75S532). 

Alkyl- or aryl-dibenzothiophenes are conveniently prepared from the 2-arylthio-cyclohexanones, which are readily cyclized and dehydrogenated to yield the respective 1-, 2-, 3- or 4-substituted dibenzothiophenes (382 equation 9 Section 3.15.2.3.2). More complex polycyclic systems are available, using suitable aryenethiols, such as naph-thalenethiols, and 2-bromo-l-tetralone to synthesize the appropriate 2-arylthio ketones. Diaryl sulfides can be converted to dibenzothiophene derivatives in satisfactory yields by photolysis in the presence of iodine (equation 10) (75S532). Several alkyldibenzothiophenes with substituents in the 2- and/or 3-positions were prepared in satisfactory yield by the condensation of dichloromethyl methyl ether with substituted allylbenzo[6]thiophenes (equation 11) (74JCS(P1)1744). 

Treatment of activated diaryl sulfides with Na2S in DMF at 130 C results in the cleavage of the sulfide and in the formation of sodium aryl sulfides which can be used in situ to prepare mixed diaryl or alkyl aryl sulfides.183 An example is reported in Scheme 22. 

Unsymmetrical diaryl sulfides (60 R = 2-NO2, 4-NO2, 2,4-(N02)2 R = H, 4-NMe2) were obtained in 80-97% yields from the reaction under PTC conditions of nitro-activated aryl halides with arenethiolates generated in situ from the reduction of the corresponding diaryl disulfides with aminoiminomethanesul-finic acid (61).192 Arylthiolates carrying electron-withdrawing substituents were not sufficiently reactive. The reaction could also be applied to the synthesis of diaryl selenides, but not of ditellurides. 

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