Dimethyl sulfoxide, reactions

NaBH4 is soluble in water, alcohols, pyridine, dioxane, dimethoxyethane, diglyme and triglyme. All these solvents, as well as aqueous tetrahydrofuran and aqueous dimethylformamide, have been used for reductions. The reductions go very slowly in di- and triglyme so these solvents are not suitable for preparative work. In some reductions in dry pyridine and dry dimethyl sulfoxide, reaction only takes place on aqueous work-up. This... 

The hydroperoxide from the more acidic fluorene prefers to react via the decomposition process (Reaction 6 or 7) rather than the reductive reaction with dimethyl sulfoxide (Reaction 3). 

The unsaturated branched chain sugar (22 equation 11) was successfully converted to an enone under the Swem conditions and the allylic alcohol (23), containing an a,p-unsaturated amide, was smoothly oxidized by this activated dimethyl sulfoxide reaction. ... 

Potassium phosphate, 1 M at pH 7.5, 60 ml, is added to the earbo-diimide-dimethyl sulfoxide reaction mixture, and the resulting solution is extracted first with 30 ml of ether and subsequently thrice with 60 ml each of ethyl acetate. The pooled ethyl acetate extracts are dried, evaporated, and treated with triethylorthoformate as described for the preparation of TFA Pheal diethylacetal. Any contaminating TFA Alaol is removed by extraction of an ethereal solution of the product with aqueous sodium bicarbonate. The procedure yields 48 mg (52%) of TFA Alaal diethylacetal which has the correct proton magnetic resonance spectrum and is homogeneous by TLC on silica gel, 0.8 in chloroform. Crystallization from hexane at —20° gave 33 mg (36%) of white crystals. 

Sodium hydride dimethyl sulfoxide Reaction with 1-hydroxylactams... 

The formation of the above anions ("enolate type) depend on equilibria between the carbon compounds, the base, and the solvent. To ensure a substantial concentration of the anionic synthons in solution the pA" of both the conjugated acid of the base and of the solvent must be higher than the pAT -value of the carbon compound. Alkali hydroxides in water (p/T, 16), alkoxides in the corresponding alcohols (pAT, 20), sodium amide in liquid ammonia (pATj 35), dimsyl sodium in dimethyl sulfoxide (pAT, = 35), sodium hydride, lithium amides, or lithium alkyls in ether or hydrocarbon solvents (pAT, > 40) are common combinations used in synthesis. Sometimes the bases (e.g. methoxides, amides, lithium alkyls) react as nucleophiles, in other words they do not abstract a proton, but their anion undergoes addition and substitution reactions with the carbon compound. If such is the case, sterically hindered bases are employed. A few examples are given below (H.O. House, 1972 I. Kuwajima, 1976). 

When the reaction was earned out m aqueous methanol as the solvent hexyl bromide was converted to hexyl cyanide m 71% yield by heating with sodium cyanide Although this IS a perfectly acceptable synthetic reaction a peiiod of ovei 20 hours was lequued Changing the solvent to dimethyl sulfoxide brought about an increase m the reaction rate... 

When 1 2 dibromodecane was treated with potassium hydroxide m aqueous ethanol it yielded a mixture of three isomenc compounds of molecular formula CioHi9Br Each of these compounds was converted to 1 decyne on reaction with sodium amide m dimethyl sulfoxide Men tify these three compounds... 

Wittig reactions may be carried out m a number of different solvents normally tetrahydrofuran (THF) or dimethyl sulfoxide (DMSO) is used... 

The reaction is of the 8 2 type and works best with primary and secondary alkyl halides Elimination is the only reaction observed with tertiary alkyl halides Aryl and vinyl halides do not react Dimethyl sulfoxide is the preferred solvent for this reaction but alcohols and water-alcohol mixtures have also been used... 

The preparation of fluoroaromatics by the reaction of KF with perhaloaromatics, primarily hexachloroben2ene, has received considerable attention. Two methods were developed and include either the use of an aprotic, polar solvent, such as /V-methy1pyrro1idinone (8), or no solvent (9). These methods plus findings that various fluoroaryl derivatives are effective fungicides (10) prompted development of a commercial process for the production of polyfluoroben2enes (11). The process uses a mixture of sodium and potassium fluorides or potassium fluoride alone in aprotic, polar solvents such as dimethyl sulfoxide or sulfolane. 

Trifluoromethanesulfonic acid is miscible in all proportions with water and is soluble in many polar organic solvents such as dimethylformamide, dimethyl sulfoxide, and acetonitrile. In addition, it is soluble in alcohols, ketones, ethers, and esters, but these generally are not suitably inert solvents. The acid reacts with ethyl ether to give a colorless, Hquid oxonium complex, which on further heating gives the ethyl ester and ethylene. Reaction with ethanol gives the ester, but in addition dehydration and ether formation occurs. 

A AlI lation. 1-Substitution is favored when the indole ring is deprotonated and the reaction medium promotes the nucleophilicity of the resulting indole anion. Conditions which typically result in A/-alkylation are generation of the sodium salt by sodium amide in Hquid ammonia, use of sodium hydride or a similar strong base in /V, /V- dim ethyl form am i de or dimethyl sulfoxide, or the use of phase-transfer conditions. 

Through reaction with sulfide or elemental sulfur at 215°C, lignosulfonates can also be used in the commercial production of dimethyl sulfide and methyl mercaptan (77). Dimethyl sulfide produced in the reaction is further oxidized to dimethyl sulfoxide (DMSO), a useful industrial solvent (see Sulfoxides). 

Lithium Acetylide. Lithium acetyhde—ethylenediamine complex [50475-76-8], LiCM7H -112X01120112X112, is obtained as colodess-to-light-tan, free-flowing crystals from the reaction of /V-lithoethylenediamine and acetylene in an appropriate solvent (131). The complex decomposes slowly above 40°O to lithium carbide and ethylenediamine. Lithium acetyhde—ethylenediamine is very soluble in primary amines, ethylenediamine, and dimethyl sulfoxide. It is slightly soluble in ether, THF, and secondary and tertiary amines, and is insoluble in hydrocarbons. 

A number of chemiluminescent reactions may proceed through unstable dioxetane intermediates (12,43). For example, the classical chemiluminescent reactions of lophine [484-47-9] (18), lucigenin [2315-97-7] (20), and transannular peroxide decomposition. Classical chemiluminescence from lophine (18), where R = CgH, is derived from its reaction with oxygen in aqueous alkaline dimethyl sulfoxide or by reaction with hydrogen peroxide and a cooxidant such as sodium hypochlorite or potassium ferricyanide (44). The hydroperoxide (19) has been isolated and independentiy emits light in basic ethanol (45). 

Reaction takes place ia aqueous solution with hydrogen peroxide and catalysts such as Cu(II), Cr(III), Co(II), ferricyanide, hernia, or peroxidase. Chemiluminescent reaction also takes place with oxygen and a strong base ia a dipolar aprotic solvent such as dimethyl sulfoxide. Under both conditions Qcis about 1% (light emission, 375—500 am) (105,107). 

Trilialophenols can be converted to poly(dihaloph.enylene oxide)s by a reaction that resembles radical-initiated displacement polymerization. In one procedure, either a copper or silver complex of the phenol is heated to produce a branched product (50). In another procedure, a catalytic quantity of an oxidizing agent and the dry sodium salt in dimethyl sulfoxide produces linear poly(2,6-dichloro-l,4-polyphenylene oxide) (51). The polymer can also be prepared by direct oxidation with a copper—amine catalyst, although branching in the ortho positions is indicated by chlorine analyses (52). 

The first aromatic sulfone polymer produced commercially was introduced as Bakelite polysulfone but now is sold by Union Carbide under the trade name Udel. It is made by reaction of the disodium salt of bisphenol A (BPA) with 4,4 -dichIorodiphenyl sulfone in a mixed solvent of chlorobenzene and dimethyl sulfoxide (eq. 12). 

Nucleophilic Substitution Route. Commercial synthesis of poly(arylethersulfone)s is accompHshed almost exclusively via the nucleophilic substitution polycondensation route. This synthesis route, discovered at Union Carbide in the early 1960s (3,4), involves reaction of the bisphenol of choice with 4,4 -dichlorodiphenylsulfone in a dipolar aprotic solvent in the presence of an alkaUbase. Examples of dipolar aprotic solvents include A/-methyl-2-pyrrohdinone (NMP), dimethyl acetamide (DMAc), sulfolane, and dimethyl sulfoxide (DMSO). Examples of suitable bases are sodium hydroxide, potassium hydroxide, and potassium carbonate. In the case of polysulfone (PSE) synthesis, the reaction is a two-step process in which the dialkah metal salt of bisphenol A (1) is first formed in situ from bisphenol A [80-05-7] by reaction with the base (eg, two molar equivalents of NaOH),... 

Vinyl Pyrroles. Relatively new synthetic routes based on a one-pot reaction between ketoximes and acetjiene ia an alkaU metal hydroxide—dimethyl sulfoxide (DMSO) system have made vinyl pyrroles accessible. It requires no pyrrole precursors and uses cheap and readily available ketones (42). 

Low DS starch acetates ate manufactured by treatment of native starch with acetic acid or acetic anhydride, either alone or in pyridine or aqueous alkaline solution. Dimethyl sulfoxide may be used as a cosolvent with acetic anhydride to make low DS starch acetates ketene or vinyl acetate have also been employed. Commercially, acetic anhydride-aqueous alkaU is employed at pH 7—11 and room temperature to give a DS of 0.5. High DS starch acetates ate prepared by the methods previously detailed for low DS acetates, but with longer reaction time. 

Thermal Stability. Dimethyl sulfoxide decomposes slowly at 189°C to a mixture of products that includes methanethiol, formaldehyde, water, bis(methylthio)methane, dimethyl disulfide, dimethyl sulfone, and dimethyl sulfide. The decomposition is accelerated by acids, glycols, or amides (30). This product mixture suggests a sequence in which DMSO initially undergoes a Pummerer reaction to give (methylthio)methano1, which is labile and reacts according to equations 1—3. Disproportionation (eq. 4) also occurs to a small extent ... 

---