Dimethyl sulfoxide-Thionyl chloride

The direct combination of selenium and acetylene provides the most convenient source of selenophene (76JHC1319). Lesser amounts of many other compounds are formed concurrently and include 2- and 3-alkylselenophenes, benzo[6]selenophene and isomeric selenoloselenophenes (76CS(10)159). The commercial availability of thiophene makes comparable reactions of little interest for the obtention of the parent heterocycle in the laboratory. However, the reaction of substituted acetylenes with morpholinyl disulfide is of some synthetic value. The process, which appears to entail the initial formation of thionitroxyl radicals, converts phenylacetylene into a 3 1 mixture of 2,4- and 2,5-diphenylthiophene, methyl propiolate into dimethyl thiophene-2,5-dicarboxylate, and ethyl phenylpropiolate into diethyl 3,4-diphenylthiophene-2,5-dicarboxylate (Scheme 83a) (77TL3413). Dimethyl thiophene-2,4-dicarboxylate is obtained from methyl propiolate by treatment with dimethyl sulfoxide and thionyl chloride (Scheme 83b) (66CB1558). The rhodium carbonyl catalyzed carbonylation of alkynes in alcohols provides 5-alkoxy-2(5//)-furanones (Scheme 83c) (81CL993). The inclusion of ethylene provides 5-ethyl-2(5//)-furanones instead (82NKK242). The nickel acetate catalyzed addition of r-butyl isocyanide to alkynes provides access to 2-aminopyrroles (Scheme 83d) (70S593). 

The 5-unsubstituted-l,2,3-triazol-4-ones (176, R = H) participate in electrophilic substitution reactions. Bromination in chloroform of anhydro-4-hydroxy-l,3-dimethyl-1,2,3-triazolium hydroxide (180) gave its 5-bromo derivative (182). The meso-ionic 3-aryl-1,2,3-triazol-4-ones (176, R = Me, R = Ar, R = H) gave 5-bromo derivatives (176, R = Me, R = Ar, R = Br) with bromine in acetic acid. Their reaction with sulphur monochloride gave the sulfide (189, X = S), and with thionyl chloride they gave the sulfoxide (189, X = SO). ... 

Another remarkable synthesis of 2,4-dicarboxythiophenes in high yield involves a unique dimethylsulfonium butadiene (34), which could be cyclized to 2,4-dimethoxycar-bonylthiophene (35) in 91% yield by standing overnight in thionyl chloride (66CB1558). The crystalline salt (34) was obtained in satisfactory yields by refluxing two equivalents of methyl propynoate with one equivalent of dimethyl sulfoxide in ethanol. 

Dimethyl sulfoxide decomposes violently when in contact with a wide range of acyl halides and related compounds, such as cyanuric, acetyl, benzoyl, benzenesulfonyl, thionyl, and phosphoryl chlorides and PC13- DMS should be used with caution as a solvent in exploratory reactions... 

Starting from pyridazine 144, n-phenyl thiazepine 211 can be synthesized. The conversion of the hydroxy group of 144 to chloride 210 with thionyl chloride, followed by ring closure with sodium sulfide monohydrate in dimethyl sulfoxide (DMSO), yielded the desired thiazepine 95 (Scheme 37) <1996JHC583>. 

Solvents that meet all or most of the criteria are propylene carbonate, dimethyl sulfoxide, 4-butyrolactone, acetonitrile, sulfur dioxide, thionyl chloride, and phosphorus oxychloride. Certain other solvents, with fairly low s values, such as tetrahydrofuran, dimethoxyethane, and 1,3-oxolane are used in conjunction with a high s solvent, in order to reduce the viscosity without impairing excessively the other desirable properties of the co-solvent. All these solvents are on the List, with properties shown in the tables mentioned. Commercial implementation of such batteries has been highly successful, with energy densities of primary dischargeable batteries of 0.3 W h g 1 or 0.5 W h cm 3 and a self discharge rate of < 2% per year of the open-circuit battery being achieved. 

To 1.17 g of (-)-7,8-difluoro-2,3-dihydro-3-hydroxymethyl-4H-[l,4] benzoxazine was added 2.77 g of thionyl chloride in pyridine. The reaction mixture was concentrated and the concentrate was subjected to column chromatography using 40 g of silica gel and eluted with chloroform to obtain 1.18 g of the reaction product as a colorless oily product. This product was dissolved in 30 ml of dimethyl sulfoxide, and 0.41 g of sodium borohydride was added thereto, followed by heating at 80-90°C for 1 hour. The reaction mixture was dissolved in 500 ml of benzene, washed with water to remove the dimethyl sulfoxide, dried over anhydrous sodium sulfate and concentrated under reduced pressure. The concentrate was subjected to column chromatography using 40 g of silica gel and eluted with benzene to obtain 0.80 g of (-)-7,8-difluoro-2,3-dihydro-3-methyl-4H-[l,4]benzoxazine as a colorless oily product [a]D25 = -9.6° (c = 2.17, CHCI3). Optical Purity >99% e.e. 

Solvent Methyl formate Dimethyl sulfoxide Propylene carbonate Thionyl chloride... 

Among other electrophilic reagents ctq>able of twinging about the Pummerer rearrangement are halides of organic and inorganic acids. As these halides transform sulfoxides into a-chlorosulfides they complement the sulfide chlorination route to these compounds. Thionyl chloride reacts readily with sulfoxides and 3-keto sulfoxides methyl phenyl sulfoxide furnishes chloromethyl phenyl sulfide (equation 37). Benzoyl chloride and acetyl chloride behave similarly. d yanuric chloii is transformed into cyanuric acid by dimethyl sulfoxide, which in turn is transformed into methyl chloromethyl sulfide (equation 3g).54,S5... 

Thionyl chloride appears to be siqrerior to trifluoroacetic anhydride as an activator of dimethyl sulfoxide during the oxidation of alcohols in terms of yields of carbonyl compounds, although it has not been as widely used. The active species in this process, leading to an alkoxysulfonium species, is probably the ion pair (26). 

As with trifluoroacetic anhydride, activation of dimethyl sulfoxide with thionyl chloride must be carried out at low temperatures as the reaction is highly exothenmic. Besides the higher yields, a further advantage of thionyl chloride to activate dimethyl sulfoxide over anhydrides is the lack of Pummerer rearrangement products or of esters formed as by-products (as long as Ae reactions are carried out below -60 C). This is amply demonstrated by the oxidation of (-)-bomeol which proceeds in an excellent 99% yield (equation 12). ... 

Dehydration Alumina (see also Dihydropyrane, preparation). Boric acid. Boron triSuoride. N-Bromoacetamide-Pyridine-SOj. Dicyclohexylcarbodiimide. Diketene. Dimethylform-amide-Thionyl chloride. Dimethyl sulfoxide. Ethylene chlorophosphite. Florisil. Girard s reagent. Hydrobromic acid. Iodine. Mesyl chloride-Sulfur dioxide. Methyl chlorosulfite. Methylketene diethylacetal. Naphthalene-d-sulfonic acid. Oxalic acid. Phenyl isocyanate. Phosgene. Phosphorus pentoxide. Phosphoryl chloride. Phthalic anhydride. Potassium bisulfate. Pyridine. Thionyi chloride. Thoria. p-Toluenesulfonic acid. p-Toluenesulfonyl chloride. Triphenylphosphine dibromide. 

Dehydration Alumina. Alumina-Pyridine-Diluent (sand). Dicyclohexylcarbodiimide. N,N-Diethyl-l-propynylamine. Dimethyl sulfoxide. Diphenylcarbodiimide. Iodine. Methoxya-cetylene. Oxalic acid. Phenylcyanate. Phosphorus pentoxide-t-Amine. Phosphoryl chloride-Phosphoric acid-Phosphorus pentoxide. Phosphoryl chloride-Pyridine. Thionyl chloride. 

DlKETONES Iodine-Dimethyl sulfoxide. Iron carbonyl. Phenyl ben-zenethiosulfonate. Potassium ferri-cyanide. Sodium methoxide. Thionyl chloride. 

Polychlorophenothiazines s. 16, 590 Thionyl chloride/dimethyl sulfoxide Electrophilic substitution s. 19, 610 Sulfuryl chloride (s. a. under C H N, SbCl, and FeClg)... 

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