Mercaptide elimination

Mercaptide Elimination. Kallio and Larson have described an oxidative degradation of methionine by a Pseudomonas. A pyridoxal phosphate enzyme eliminates methyl mercaptan and ammonia, leaving a-ketobutyrate. The methyl mercaptide is oxidized to dimethyl disulfide. 

Unlike other stabilizers, tin mercaptide, or the mercaptan that is formed after the HCl reacts with the mercaptide, can react with the allyhc chlorine to produce a sulfide (47), thus eliminating the labile chlorine groups and stopping the unzipping. 

On the other hand, in the case of a-halogenoethyl sulphoxides 503 an SN2-type displacement occurs with mercaptide anions and leads to a-alkylthioethyl sulphoxides 504, while the elimination-addition mechanism is operative with alkoxide anions, affording jS-alkoxyethyl sulphoxides577,596 505 (equation 306). Finally, the reaction of 1-halogeno-l-methylethyl derivatives with both nucleophiles mentioned above occurs via the elimination-addition mechanism596 (equation 307). The substitution reaction can also take place intramolecularly (equation 308) and it proceeds very easily (cf. Section IV.A.2.C)484,600. 

The mechanism of the nucleophilic substitution of a-halogenosulphoxides depends on structural factors and the nature of a nucleophile and may occur according to two competitive mechanisms a direct 8 2 substitution and an elimination-addition process . Thus, chloromethyl and bromomethyl sulphoxides react with alkoxide and mercaptide anions via an 8, 2 mechanism to give the corresponding a-alkoxy and a-alkylthiomethyl sulphoxides 502, respectively (equation 305). Optically active a-alkoxymethyl and a-alkylthiomethyl sulphoxides can also be obtained in this way - . 

Conversion of an amide a thioamide enhances the reactivity of that function since it favors the enol form and provides a better leaving group for addition-elimination reactions (mercaptide vs. hydroxide). Thioamides obtained by treatment of diazepi-none such as (15-1) or (16-1) with phosphorus pentasulhde provide starting materials for further modihcation of the benzodiazepine nucleus. (More recently developed reagents such as Lawesson s Reagent or hw(tricyclohexyltin) sulhde provide more convenient methods for that transformation.) Thus, reaction of the thioamide (15-2) with (9-allylhydroxylamine leads directly to the amidine, probably via an addition-elimination sequence of the thioenol tautomer of (15-2). There is thus obtained the antianxiety agent uldazapam (15-3) [17]. 

Just as the Fe(RSXant)3 complexes undergo a CS2 elimination reaction to give mercaptide-bridged dimers of the type [Fe(RSXRSXant)2]2, the Co(RSXant)3 complexes undergo the same reaction (405) ... 

The kinetics of the carbon disulfide elimination reaction were studied using PMR and visible spectroscopy (16). This spontaneous reaction was found to be first order in the M(RSXant)2 complexes (M = Ni, R = Et, r-Bu, Bz M = Pd, R =/ -Bu), both in the disappearance of the starting material and in the formation of the mercaptide-bridged species in CHC13 and THF. The pseudo-first-order kinetics observed in CS2 are attributed to an equilibrium between the M(RSXant)2 complexes and this solvent. Rate constants for the reaction are of the order of 10 3 to 10"1 min"1 depending on solvent, temperature, alkyl... 

Typically, substitution reactions occur by attack of a nucleophilic reagent on a benzyl carbon present in the form of a carbonium ion or a methine group in a quinonemethide structure. Several representative substitution reactions are illustrated in Fig. 1.5. At moderate temperatures ( 100°C) and under mildly alkaline conditions, benzylic hydroxyl groups in phenolic units are converted to thiols by reaction with bisulfide (Q, Fig. 1.5). At higher temperatures and alkalinities, e.g., under kraft pulping conditions, the mercaptide group undergoes a series of transformations in which the sulfur is ultimately eliminated. 

The addncts derived from carbodiimides and nncleophiles also undergo thermal elimination reactions to regenerate the carbodiimide, and they are therefore of limited preparative value. For example, the elimination of hydrogen chloride from carbonimidoyl dichlorides is used in the synthesis of arenesulfonylcarbodiimides (see Section 9.2.2). Of course, isoureas and isothioureas also undergo elimination reactions. When the elimination of isothioureas is conducted in the presence of heavy metal ions, the insoluble metal mercaptides are precipitated to facilitate the in situ generation of the carbodiimides. 

Treatment of 2,4-diphenylthietane 94 with potassium t-butoxide yields a variety of products for which a cyclopropane mercaptide precursor was suggested, although it seems equally likely that the ring might be directly cleaved by an elimination reaction. A ring-cleaving elimination of 91 via an organocuprate derivative 95 also has been reported. ... 

This results from the fact that the tin mercaptide possess both nucleophilic and electrophilic properties, which permit substitution by the cyclic mechanism shown in Scheme 3.3.3, rather than the elimination which is normally observed with such structures. 

The bromine atom of ll-bromobenzo[fc]indeno[l,2-e]l,4-thiazine (67a) can be replaced by a cyanide, phenyl mercaptide, or hydroxyl group. Substitution should occur through the usual addition-elimination mechanism. 

Nucleophilic attack by this species at the a-carbon atom will also be governed by the same steric considerations as in thermal decomposition and hence the inverse relationship of thermal stability and resistance to nucleophilic attack, and anti-wear activity and ease of nucleophilic attack. Further thermal processes involve olefin elimination from alkyl groups and lead to the formation of phosphorus acids. Nucleophilic substitutions of one phosphorus species by another leads to P-O-P structures and zinc mercaptide Zn(SR)2 as a reaction intermediate. Reaction of this mercaptide with dithiophosphate leads to trithiophosphates and eventually tetrathiophosphates. Finally, an oil-insoluble deposit is formed of a mixture of zinc thiophosphate and zinc pyro- and polypyrothiophosphates. 

Stabilizer or Minimise or eliminate Interrupts free-radical Tin mercaptides, barium-... 

The attack of the acid (154) on the readily polarizable 1,2-dithiafulvene (155) corresponds to the extremely ready addition of electrophilic reagents to the simple and vinylogous heptafulvene derivatives, which are iso-n-electronic with 155. The opening of the dithiole rings in 156 and 158 under the pressure of the carbanionoid electron pair liberated by the proton abstraction and of the free electron pair on the sulfur, as well as the elimination of elementary sulfur and the intramolecular electrophilic attack of the mercaptide ion (157) on the 5-position to form 158, are simply the typical reactions of 1,2-dithioles that have already been discussed (Section II, B, 3). The reactivity of the 3-methyl group in 154 finds many parallels in the ease of condensation of the methyl-substituted pyridinium, pyrylium, thiopyrylium, and tropylium salts, and particularly... 

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