2- Methyl-5- thiophenes

The presence of thiophene and its derivatives in crude oils was detected in 1899, but until 1953, the date at which the methyl-thiophenes were identified in kerosene from Agha Jari, Iran crude oil, it was believed that they came from the degradation of sulfides during refining operations. Finally, their presence was no longer doubted after the identification of benzothiophenes and their derivatives (Table 8.9), and lately of naphthenobenzothiophenes in heavy cuts. 

Commercial toluene contains methyl thiophenes (thiotolenes), b.p. 112-113°, which cannot be removed by distillation. It may be purified by... 

The chemical shifts of the methyl groups of 5-substituted 2-methyl-thiophenes have been found to be approximately proportional to the shifts of the 2-ring hydrogen in 5-substituted thiophenes and thus dependent both on the mesomeric and on the inductive effects of the substituents. ... 

Using these assumptions and conventions, Imoto and co-workers have correlated a number of series of reactions of thiophenes and furans. The reactions studied are the acid-base equilibria pK values) and the acid catalyzed methylations (thiophenes only) of thiophene-and furan-carboxylic acids and the alkaline hydrolyses of their ethyl esters the side-chain bromination of the a-acetylthiophenes, and the a-mercuration of thiophenes and the polarographic half-wave potentials of the methyl esters of thiophene- and furan-carboxylic acids and of nitrothiophenes. The pK values were determined and the ester hydrolyses studied for all three substitution orientations in the thiophene series. For the 4-R-2-Y and 5-R-2-Y series, the p-values do not appear significantly different and the data could probably be combined into a single series unfortunately, however, no limits of accuracy are reported for the p-values, and some of the raw data are not readily available so recalculation is not easily possible. For the 5-R-3-Y series the p-values deviate considerably from the other values however, whereas they are higher for the pK values, they are lower for the ester hydrolyses, and it is possible that the differences are neither systematic nor significant. 

Oxidation of thiophene and its derivatives was studied using hydrogen peroxide (H2O2), t-butyl-hydroperoxide and Ti-Beta redox molecular sieve as selective oxidation catalysts. A new reaction pathway was discovered and investigated using C-13 NMR, GC, GC-MS, HPLC, ion chromatography, and XANES. The thiophene oxidized to thiophene-sesquioxide [3a,4,7,7a-tetrahydro-4,7-epithiobenzo[b]-thiophene 1,1.8-trioxide] and the sesquioxide oxidized mostly to sulfate. 2-Methyl-thiophene and 2,5 dimethylthiophene also oxidized to sulfate and sulfone products. The Benzothiophene oxidation product was sulfone. This proposed new reaction pathway is different from prior literature, which reported the formation of thiophene 1,1-dioxide (sulfone ) as a stable oxidation product... 

Keywords thiophene, methyl-thiophene, benzothiophene, H202, Ti-Beta, mechanism, XANES. 

Tetramethylhydrazine, see Dimethylamine Tetramethylsuccinonitrile, see Aldicarb Tetrazene, see Naphthalene 2-Thiazolidinethione-4-carboxylic acid, see Captan 1.1 -Thiobis-ethane, see Phorate 3.3 -Thiobis(methylene)-1.2.3-benzotriazin-4(3Afl-one, see Azinnhos-methyl Thiomalic acid, see Malathion Thiomethylbenzazimide, see Azinphos-methyl Thiophene, see Benzene Thiophenol, see Fonofos Thiophosphoric acid, see Phorate Thiram monosulfide, see Thiram o-Tolualdehyde, see oXylene m-Tolualdehyde, see m-Xylene p-Tolualdehyde, see p-Xylene Toluene, see Benzene. 2-ChlorobiDhenyl. 4 Chlorobinhenyl. Isobutylbenzene, Methylcyclohexane, Styrene, p-Xylene... 

Dihydrothieno[3,4-Z ]thiophene (131) was prepared by two methods. In the first (Scheme 8), chloromethylation of methyl thiophene-2-carboxylate (132) forms methyl 2,3-bischloromethyl-thiophene-5-carboxylate (133) (85%) cyclization of 133 with sodium sulfide in methanol yields (66%) methyl 4,6-dihydrothieno[3,4-i]-thiophene-2-carboxylate (134). Peroxide oxidation of 134 gives 2-methoxycarbonyl-4,6-dihydrothieno[3,4-h]thiophene 5,5-dioxide (135) and hydrolysis of 134 followed by metaperiodate oxidation furnishes the sulfoxide (91). Thienothiophene (131) was produced by hydrolysis and decarboxylation of 134. As indicated above, the sulfoxide (91) was used for the synthesis of thieno[3,4-6]thiophene (3). 

Thiophen und Methyl-thiophene reagieren mit Aryldiazonium-Salzen nicht zu den erwar-teten Azo-Verbindungen. Stattdessen tritt unter Stickstoff-Verlust im Sinne einer Gom-berg-Reaktion Arylierung ein2 ... 

Stufe (H3C)3C -OH/ 1,4-Dioxan, Riickfl. h 2. Stufe HCl/H C-COOH 0r, bis zur Homogenitat dann Amin HC1 mit Ether fallen [2-tert.-Butoxyearbonylamino-5-methyl-thiophen - ] 2-Amino-S-methyl-thiophen [92] 82 6 6... 

Research Focus Synthesis of poly(4,8-didodecyl-2,6-bis-(3-methyl-thiophen-2-yl)-benzo[l,2-b 4,5-b ]dithiophene) derivatives for use as semiconductors in... 

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