Hydrogen bonding sulphoxides

Based on the kinetic studies, a mechanism for this oxidation was proposed45 which involves a nucleophilic attack by the sulphide on a cyclic hydrogen-bonded form of the peracid (equation 9). Since oxidation using peracids occurs under very mild conditions, it can be successfully applied to the preparation of base sensitive sulphoxides. Thus, di(a-bromobenzyl) sulphoxide 25, which is very labile in the presence of a base, was obtained by careful oxidation of a-di(a-bromobenzyl) sulphide by means of m-chloroperbenzoic acid (MCPBA)46 (equation 10). 

The hydrogen bond of sulphoxides and linear energy relationships. 552... 

Sulphoxides and sulphones form hydrogen bonds with proton donors and association complexes with metallic salts by using either the oxygen atom or the sulphur atom in their S—O linkages. The capability for the formation of hydrogen bonds or complexes depends... 

Another marked physical difference between sulphides and sulphoxides (or sulphones) is that sulphoxides (and lower alkyl sulphones) are hygroscopic and dissolve quite readily in water or protic solvents such as alcohols, and even more so lower alkyl or alkyl aryl sulphoxides are almost freely miscible with water. This can be accounted for by the formation of the strong hydrogen bond between the S—O bond in the sulphoxides and water molecules. Moreover, lower alkyl sulphoxides and sulphones such as dimethyl sulphoxide (DMSO) or sulpholene can dissolve a number of metallic salts, especially those of alkali and alkaline earth metals, and hence these compounds have been widely utilized as versatile and convenient solvents in modern organic chemistry26 (Table 3). 

These results clearly demonstrate that linear energy relationships can be established for the formation of hydrogen bonds between numerous Lewis bases (including sulphoxides) with Lewis acids. 

Recently, Kamlet and Taft introduced new elaborate parameters in order to explain the linear energy relationship for the formation of the hydrogen bond between HBA (hydrogen bond acceptor) and HBD (hydrogen bond donor). They treated several sulphoxides as HBA. The detailed presentations and actual treatments of these parameters have been described in their recent review article72. 

The results are in accordance with those obtained by Taft and colleagues80,81. These authors have measured the 19F NMR chemical shifts of p-FC6H4OH in the presenceof 60 bases including sulphoxides (DMSO, methyl phenyl, methyl p-nitrophenyl, diphenyl, tetramethylene sulphoxide) and determined the association constants K for the hydrogen bond shown in equation 15. 

TABLE 14. Thermodynamic parameters of hydrogen-bonded complexes of p-FC6H4OH with sulphoxides and some other bases... 

In the course of this study, the authors determined /Lvalues for dibenzyl, methyl phenyl, methyl p-nitrophenyl, di-p-tolyl, di-isopropyl and tetramethylene sulphoxides and for diethyl, dipropyl and dibutyl sulphites. The /Lscales are applied to the various reactions or the spectral measurements. The /Lscales have been divided into either family-dependent (FD) types, which means two or more compounds can share the same /Lscale, family-independent (FI) types. Consequently, a variety of /Lscales are now available for various families of the bases, including 29 aldehydes and ketones, 17 carboxylic amides and ureas, 14 carboxylic acids esters, 4 acyl halides, 5 nitriles, 10 ethers, 16 phosphine oxides, 12 sulphinyl compounds, 15 pyridines and pyrimidines, 16 sp3 hybridized amines and 10 alcohols. The enthalpies of formation of the hydrogen bond of 4-fluorophenol with both sulphoxides and phosphine oxides and related derivatives fit the empirical equation 18, where the standard deviation is y = 0.983. Several averaged scales are shown in Table 1588. 

A similar quantitative treatment of sulphoxides as hydrogen bonding acceptors has been obtained by comparing the IR frequency shift AvOH of the C—I bond in an acetylenic iodide such as IC=CI (Avc j) due to formation of a C—T complex with phenol in various bases. This investigation suggests that sulphoxides belong to the same family as carbonyls, phosphine oxides, arsine oxides and their derivatives90. 

Formation of hydrogen bonds between phenols and naphthols on the one hand, and dimethyl, divinyl, diphenyl sulphoxides and other sulphinyl or sulphonyl derivatives on the other, have also been documented in the literature95-97. 

Intramolecular hydrogen bonds between sulphinyl or sulphonyl groups and hydroxyl groups have also been described106,107. The IR shifts Vjq in these experiments were found at around 1005-1010cm 1108 U0. Several other papers which describe hydrogen bonds of sulphoxides and sulphones are given in References 111-120. 

C. The Influence of the Hydrogen Bond on the Conformation and Configuration of Sulphoxides... 

In the equilibrium mixtures of thiane oxide (2) and 1,3-, 1,4-dithiane dioxides (3) and (4), the axial conformers are present predominantly over the equatorial conformers at low temperatures (— 90 °C). For instance in the monoxide (2) a ratio of 62% axial and 48% equatorial conformers has been observed. The prevalence of the axial conformers in the sulphoxides (2) and (4) has been explained to be due to hydrogen bonds between the oxygen in the axial sulphinyl group and the hydrogen atom at the 3-position as shown in Scheme 7121 127. 

Thus, the enantiomeric contents in a pair of sulphoxides can be determined by the NMR chemical shifts in the methine or methylene protons in the two diastereomeric complexes which are stabilized by the hydrogen bond between the hydroxyl and the sulphinyl groups147-151 (Scheme 13). Similarly, the enantiomeric purity and absolute configurations of chiral sulphinate ester can be determined by measuring the H NMR shifts in the presence of the optically active alcohols152. 

They have also demonstrated that a linear energy relationship exists between pKa values of sulphoxides and the hydrogen bonding ability which was determined by IR-stretching shift of the OH band in PhOH in CC14. Oae and coworkers173 determined the pKa values of diaryl sulphoxides and found that the substituent effect does not correlate with the Hammett o values but approximately with the a values. The pKa values thus obtained are summarized in Table 19. 

Dihydrodithiin sulphoxides, synthesis of 243 Dihydrothiophene dioxides, reactions of 653 /(,/( -Dihydroxyketones 619 Dimerization, photochemical 877, 884 Dimethyl sulphoxide anion of - see Dimsyl anion hydrogen bonding with alcohols and phenols 546-552 oxidation of 981, 988 photolysis of 873, 874, 988 radiolysis of 890-909, 1054, 1055 self-association of 544-546 Dimsyl anion... 

Hydrogen bond acceptor (HBA) 552 Hydrogen bond donor (HBD) 552 Hydrogen bonding 461, 544-567 influence on the conformation and configuration of sulphoxides 562-565... 

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