Dithiolation

HSCH2CH(0H)CH(0H)CH2SH. a useful water soluble reagent for preserving thiols in the reduced state, and for reducing disulphides quantitatively to dithiols. 

Two efficient syntheses of strained cyclophanes indicate the synthetic potential of allyl or benzyl sulfide intermediates, in which the combined nucleophilicity and redox activity of the sulfur atom can be used. The dibenzylic sulfides from xylylene dihalides and -dithiols can be methylated with dimethoxycarbenium tetrafiuoroborate (H. Meerwein, 1960 R.F. Borch, 1968, 1969 from trimethyl orthoformate and BFj, 3 4). The sulfonium salts are deprotonated and rearrange to methyl sulfides (Stevens rearrangement). Repeated methylation and Hofmann elimination yields double bonds (R.H. Mitchell, 1974). 

Recently, it has been reported that l,3-dithiole-2-thione (12) reacts with primary amine to give the corresponding thiourea and A-4-thia2oline-2-thione (Scheme 5) (14). 5-Methylenethiazolidine-2-thione (13) obtained from the reaction of propargyl amine and carbon disulfide... 

Although a variety of oxidizing agents are available for this transformation it occurs so readily that thiols are slowly converted to disulfides by the oxygen m the air Dithiols give cyclic disulfides by intramolecular sulfur-sulfur bond formation An example of a cyclic disulfide is the coenzyme a lipoic acid The last step m the laboratory synthesis of a lipoic acid IS an iron(III) catalyzed oxidation of the dithiol shown... 

Sucrose derivatives Sucrose 6,6y-dithiol Sucrose 6,6y-episulfide Sucrose esters... 

The tris (dithiolene) complexes of Mo can be formed by reaction of the corresponding dithiol and molybdate in acid solution. The intense green... 

More recendy, molecular molybdenum-sulfur complexes and clusters have been used as soluble precursors for M0S2 in the formulation of lubricating oils for a variety of appHcations (70). Presumably, the oil-soluble molybdenum—sulfur-containing precursors decompose under shear, pressure, or temperature stress at the wear surface to give beneficial coatings. In several cases it has been shown that the soluble precursors are trifunctional in that they not only display antifriction properties, but have antiwear and antioxidant characteristics as weU. In most cases, the ligands for the Mo are of the 1,1-dithiolate type, including dithiocarbamates, dithiophosphates, and xanthates (55,71). 

Generally, unsaturated compounds, eg, alkenes and natural fats and their derivatives, are much more reactive toward sulfur than alkanes. Sulfur reacts with unsaturated compounds at temperatures of 120—215°C, forming products that are usually dark and often viscous cross-linked mixtures of dithiole-3-thiones (eq. 4) (2) and sulfides (Table 1) (3). 

In the field, cassiterite ore is usually recognized by its high density (7.04 g/cm ), low solubiUty in acid and alkaline solutions, and extreme hardness. Tin in solution is detected by the white precipitate formed with mercuric chloride. Stannous tin in solution gives a red precipitate with toluene-3,4-dithiol. 

Esters derived from the primary alcohols are the most stable and those derived from the tertiary alcohols are the least stable. The decomposition temperature is lower in polar solvents, eg, dimethyl sulfoxide (DMSO), with decomposition occurring at 20°C for esters derived from the tertiary alcohols (38). Esters of benzyl xanthic acid yield stilbenes on heating, and those from neopentyl alcohols thermally rearrange to the corresponding dithiol esters (39,40). The dialkyl xanthate esters catalytically rearrange to the dithiol esters with conventional Lewis acids or trifluoroacetic acid (41,42). The esters are also catalytically rearranged to the dithiolesters by pyridine Ai-oxide catalysts (43) ... 

Double bonds in or diaLkylarnino groups on the alkyl group of the. -methyl ester may faciUtate isomerization to the dithiol ester (44). For example ... 

The reaction of toluene-3,4-dithiol(3,4-dimercaptotoluene) and antimony trichloride ia acetone yields a yeUow soHd Sb2(tdt)2, where tdt is the toluene-3,4-dithiolate anionic ligand (51). With the disodium salt of maleonitnledithiol ((Z)-dimercapto-2-butenedinitrile), antimony trichloride gives the complex ion [Sb(mnt)2] , where mat is the maleonitnledithiolate anionic ligand. This complex has been isolated as a yeUow, crystalline, tetraethyl ammonium salt. The stmctures of these antimony dithiolate complexes have apparendy not been unambiguously determiaed. 

C3S2 s s — — — l,2-Dithiolane-4-carboxylic acid 3-phenyl-l,2-dithiolylium iodide 4-methyl-1,2-dithiole-3-thione ... 

Active methylene compounds can add to 1,3-dithiolylium ions to give 2-substituted 1,2-dihydro-1,3-dithioles (206). Again, addition is often followed by oxidation (to 207). Alternatively, further addition can occur (to 208) (80AHC(27)151). In this reaction, (205) can be CH2(CN)2, CH2(COMe)2 or even MeCOMe. Somewhat similar reactions are shown by 1,3-diarylimidazolium ions. 

In the 1,2-dithiole series such imines are readily isolated they can be alkylated or protonated, e.g. (448) (449) (66AHC(7)39). 

Modification of reaction schemes leading to furans, thiophenes and pyrroles by incorporation of a heteroatom into the substrate provides ready access to imidazoles, thiazoles, oxazoles, dithioles, oxathioles, etc. Incorporation of two heteroatoms into the substrates... 

Use of the /3-thiodithiocarbonates (25) and acid results in ring closure to the 1,3-dithiol-2-one (26). Methyl, ethyl and isopropyl groups have been utilized in (25) (76S489), and when R = f-butyl, ring closure occurred in the presence of perchloric acid with extreme ease (74JOC95). Other variations of this synthetic route to 1,3-dithiole derivatives are described in Chapter 4.32. 

Phenyl-l,2,3-thiadiazole (513) as well as the 5-phenyl isomer (514) both lose N2 on photolysis. The 1,3-dithiole derivative shown was formed from both thiadiazoles (58LA(614)4). 

Thermolysis of the 1,2,3-thiadiazoles (545) in the presence of carbon disulfide leads to the thiocarbonyl carbene (546) adduct, the ring-fused l,3-dithiole-2-thione (547) (76JOC730). 

Alkylisothiazolium salts (61) undergo N—S bond cleavage when treated with hydrogen sulfide or thiophenol to form acyclic products (62), but 2-aryl compounds give 1,2-dithioles (63 or 64 Scheme 9) (75SST(3)54l, 77SST(4)339). 

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