Elimination of sulfoxides

Metallation of dibenzothiophene 5-oxide with three equivalents of butyllithium followed by carbonation gave a mixture of 4-dibenzo-thiophene carboxylic acid (36 /o) and dibenzothiophene (10%). The reduction or even elimination of sulfoxide groups in the presence of... 

An even milder cycloelimination uses a ring of five atoms 6.28 instead of six, but still involves six electrons. This is no longer a retro-ene reaction, but it is still a retro group transfer and it is allowed in the all-suprafacial mode 6.29. The pyrolysis of N-oxides 6.30 is called the Cope elimination, and typically takes place at 120°, the corresponding elimination of sulfoxides 6.31 (X=S) typically takes place at 80°, and, even easier, the elimination of selenoxides takes place at room temperature or below. All these reactions are affected by functionality making these numbers only rough guides, but they are all reliably syn stereospecific. 

Oxidation of alkyl iodides, bearing electron-withdrawing groups such as car-bomethoxy and sulfonyl at the a-carbon, with m-chloroperbenzoic acid results in clean elimination to give olefins [Eq. (27)]. This reaction involves reductive / -elimination of the intermediate iodosylalkanes, as observed in thermal peri-cyclic -elimination of sulfoxides and selenoxides. Exclusive syn stereochemistry in the reductive /1-elimination was established by deuterium labeling... 

The thermal elimination of sulfoxides (example below) is a first-order reaction with almost no rate dependence on substituent at sulfur (Ar) and a modest negative entropy of activation. It is accelerated if R is a carbonyl group (that is, R = COR )- The reaction is (slightly) faster in less polar solvents. Explain. 

The thermal elimination of sulfoxides (example below) is a first-order reaction with almost r ... 

The first synthesis of d4T was accomplished in 1966 by Horwitz from l-(2-deoxy-3,5-epoxy-/3-D-r/2reo-pentosyl)thymine abstraction of a proton from the 2 -position by potassium butoxide in DMSO resulted in an opening of the oxetane ring and formation of d4T. Other syntheses were based on the elimination of sulfoxide or the selenoxide moiety placed at the C-2 position in the nucleoside, which was prepared from cheap lactone 6 (O Scheme 7) [6]. 

Allylic alcohols can be converted to 1,3-dienes by sequential sulfenate-sulfoxide 2,3-sigmatropic rearrangement and syn elimination (Scheme 54). The last step used the pyrolytic elimination of sulfoxide, a cis elimination discovered by Cram. A paper published by Trost ° documented this topic in detail. 

The method employing the sequential alkylation and elimination of sulfoxides, reported above, has been successfully applied to the synthesis of dienes (Scheme 86, entry c), aryl alkenes and dienes (Scheme 47), vinyl sulfides, a,3-unsaturated sulfoxides, vinyl fluorides and vinyl chlorides (Scheme 96, entry a), and 1,1-dichloro-l-alkenes (Scheme 96, entry b). ... 

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