1.3- Dihydrobenzo thiophenes

The reaction between benzo [6]thiophene and ethyl diazoacetate affords at least three products 228 402 two of these are ethyl cis- and f ros-2,3-dihydrobenzo[ ]thiophene-2,3-ylene acetate (30).402 The third is believed by Badger et al.228 to result from attack on the benzene... 

The acylation of on. o-substituted 2-arylaminomethylene-2,3-dihydrobenzo[ ]thiophen-3-ones with acyl chlorides (Scheme 14) results in formation of the corresponding A -acyl enaminoketones 218. 

Biocatalytic asymmetric oxidation of 2,3-dihydrobenzo[. ]thiophene to (—)-(lJ)-sulfoxide in excellent yield has been reported. The enzyme used is a chloroperoxidase from the marine fungus Caldariomycesfumago. This enzyme is relatively stable and does not require any cofactor. Hydrogen peroxide was the oxygen source. Using this system, 2,3-dihydro-benzo[. ]thiophene was converted to the (—)-(i )-sulfoxide in 99.5% yield, with an ee of 99%. Similarly, 1,3-dihydro-benzo[f]thiophene could be oxidized to the corresponding sulfoxide in 80% yield <1998CH246>. 

Benzo[fr]thiophene 1,1-dioxide and its derivatives are reduced to the corresponding 2,3-dihydro derivatives by catalytic hydrogenation in good yields (Scheme 94). In this reduction, the sulfonyl moiety remains unchanged [13,189, 238, 239]. However, reduction of benzo[ ]thiophene 1,1-dioxide with LiAlH4 affords deoxygenated 2,3-dihydrobenzo[ ]thiophene in 79% yield [233]. Benzo[fr]thiophene 1,1-dioxide was also reduced to the 2,3-dihydro derivative by an electrochemical method (Scheme 95) [240]. 

With the exception of quinoline HDN, all catalysts are active for the reactions studied. All three catalysts are found to attain complete sulfur removal in the form of H2S (100% HDS) from benzothiophene after 1 h of reaction time (Figure 27.6(a)). The desulfurization pathway is found to go through the rapid hydrogenation of benzothiophene to dihydrobenzo-thiophene, followed by cleavage of the C-S bond in dihydrobenzo-thiophene, to yield ethyl benzene as the main product of the reaction. As seen in Table 27.3, the oxynitride and the oxycarbide are almost twice as active for HDS than the sulfated hematite. In terms of the turnover frequency, the oxycarbide is more active than the oxynitride for all reactions tested. 

The principal mechanisms proposed for the heterogeneous HDS of a prototypical 5-heterocycle, namely benzo[6]thiophene (BT), are illustrated in Scheme 1. The plain hydrogenation of C-C double bonds occurs in step a, involving the regiose-lective reduction of BT to dihydrobenzo[/ ]thiophene (DHBT), as well as in step e, where styrene is reduced to ethylbenzene. 

Photocyclisation of 2-arylthiocyclohexenones (414) yields racemic dihydrobenzo-thiophenes (416) via a thiocarbonyl ylide (415). Theprochiral compounds (414) also form 1 1 inclusion complexes with the homochiral host (63) and irradiation of crystals of these complexes yields the dihydrobenzothiophenes (416) in 32-83% enantiomeric excess, optically pure samples being easily accessible by further recrystallisation. The decay kinetics for ylides (415), produced by laser flash photolysis of the aryl vinyl sulfldes (414), indicate the presence of more than one ylide species in each case. ... 

Substituted 1,4-dihydrobenzothiin 3-oxides (sultines), which are stable at room temperature, can be obtained from the isomeric l,3-dihydrobenzo[/>]thiophene... 

Benzo-3-thiatricyclo[4.1.0.02-7]heptene (I, X = H) is a valene -type valence isomer of 2 and 3 however, 1 isomerizes to 3 in photochemical and silver(I)-promoted reactions.75 However. when 1 is heated in carbon tetrachloride at 150°C 3 is not produced but instead the isomeric 1,2-disubstituted 2a,7b-dihydrobenzo[f>]cyclobuta[r/]thiophene. When a rhodium(I)... 

During investigation of the synthesis of benzocyclobutane 193, Cava and coworkers118 found that o-quinodimethane 192, generated in the pyrolysis of 1,3-dihydrobenzo[c]thiophene 2,2-dioxide (191), can be trapped by Af-phenylmaleimide to give N-phenyl-1,2,3,4-tetrahydronaphthalene 2,3-dicarboimide (194) (equation 125). 

Charlton121 has recently reported the asymmetric induction in the reaction of dimethyl fumarate and l,3-dihydrobenzo[c]thiophene 2,2-dioxide (198) containing a chiral a-alkoxy group at the 2-position (equation 128). A diastereomeric excess of 2.8 1 of 199 to 200 is achieved by using 198 derived from optically active a-methylbenzyl alcohol. 

The synthetic utility of o-quinodimethane generated by cheletropic elimination of S02 has been amply demonstrated by Oppolzer and Nicolaou, who have conducted an intramolecular cycloaddition coupled with the alkylation of 1,3-dihydrobenzo[c]thiophene 2,2-dioxide122. When 1,3-dihydro-l-(4-pentenyl)benzo[c]thiophene 2,2-dioxide (201) prepared from 1,3-dihydrobenzo[c]thiophene 2,2-dioxide and 4-pentenyl bromide is heated in di-n-butyl... 

Valence Isomerization of the 2-Thiabicyclo[3.2.0]heptadiene Moiety In principle, a valence isomerization of thiabicyclo[3.2.0]heptadiene skeleton would lead to a thiepin ring system. Wynberg et al. 23) reported that the photochemical adduct (28) from benzo[6]thiophene and dimethyl acetylenedicarboxylate was not thermally stable. When heated in diglyme, it loses sulfur to give dimethyl 1,2-naphthalenedicarboxylate. This reaction presumably proceeds via ring opening of 28 to 2,3-dimethoxycarbonylbenzo[6]thiepin (29) which readily eliminates sulfur. This synthetic route was successfully applied to the reaction of electron-deficient acetylenes with enamines of 2,3-dihydrobenzo[fe]thiophen-3-ones in which the enamine moiety constitutes part of a thiophene system. When 3-pyrrolidin-l-yl-benzo[6]thiophene (30) was allowed to react with dimethyl acetylenedicarboxylate... 

Some theoretical aspects of thiophene reactivity and structure have also been discussed, for example the kinetics of proton transfer from 2,3-dihydrobenzo[6]thiophenc-2-onc <06JOC8203>, the configuration of imines derived from thiophenecarbaldehydes <06JOC7165>, and the relative stability of benzo[c]thiophene <06T12204>. The kinetics of nucleophilic aromatic substitution of some 2-substituted-5-nitrothiophenes in room temperature ionic liquids have also been investigated <06JOC5144>. 

Although sodium sulphide reacts readily with haloalkanes [2] and activated aryl halides (see Chapter 2) [e.g. 3-5] in the presence of a quaternary ammonium catalyst to form symmetrical thioethers (Table 4.1), a major side reaction results in the formation of disulphides owing to the oxidation of the intermediate thiols under the basic conditions. Consequently, little use has been made of this procedure for the synthesis of thioethers [3, 6], but the corresponding reaction of the a,(0-dihaloalkanes to yield cyclic thioethers has proved to be a valuable procedure for the synthesis of thietanes [7] (Table 4.2). The ring closure with the secondary dihaloalkanes is considerably more difficult to effect than is the reaction of the primary dihaloalkanes. 1,3-Dihydrobenzo[c]thiophene (89%) is produced in the reaction of 1,2-bis(bromomethyl)benzene with sodium sulphide (Scheme 4.1) [8]. The direct... 

For benzo[Z ]thiophene the heterocycle is rather more resistant to ring opening and oxidation with hydrogen peroxide in acetic acid at 95 C, for example, gives the 1,1-dioxide (Scheme 7.22) reduction with either sodium and ethanol or triethylsilane in trifluoroacetic acid affords 2,3-dihydrobenzo[Z)]thiophene. Electrophiles give mainly 3-substituted benzo[Z ]thiophenes, although these products are often accompanied by smaller amounts of the 2-isomers. 

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