1.4- Oxathiane 5-oxides

Attempts have been made to use n.m.r. data to establish the absolute configuration of the sulphoxide group in 1,4-oxathian 5-oxides (e.g., 69 and 70) and in other cyclic systems. To distinguish... 

Oxathiane dioxides lithiated 641 synthesis of 638, 647 Oxathiane oxides, synthesis of 352 Oxathiolane oxides, synthesis of 241 Oxaziridines 72, 254, 826 as optically active oxidizing agents 291 Oxazolidinones 826 Oxazolines 619, 788... 

Taking advantage of a tandem sulfoxide elimination-sulfenic acid addition approach to cyclic sulfoxides <1977J(P1)1574>, the synthesis of a number of novel 1,4-oxathiane oxides 229 and 230 based on the intramolecular addition of sulfenic acids to alkenes or alkynes tethered through an ether linkage has been reported (Equation 38) <20050BC404>. 

Oxathiane and -dithiane are formed from ethylene oxide and hydrogen sulfide at 200°C in the presence of an aluminum oxide catalyst (65). 

Oxathiane 101 is readily deprotonated using s-BuLi, and the resulting anion reacts with alkyl halides, ketones, and benzonitrile (85JOC657). The majority of work in this area, however, is due to Eliel and coworkers and has involved chiral 1,3-oxathianes as asymmetric acyl anion equivalents. In the earliest work it was demonstrated that the oxathianes 102 and 103, obtained in enantiomeri-cally pure form by a sequence involving resolution, could be deprotonated with butyllithium and added to benzaldehyde. The products were formed with poor selectivity at the new stereocenter, however, and oxidation followed by addition... 

The synthesis of the 2-acyloxathianes 3 makes use of the fact that for stereoelectronic reasons1, electrophilic attack on conformationally locked 2-lithiated oxathianes 1 leads exclusively to equatorially substituted products 2. A subsequent oxidation step completes the synthesis. 

Deprotonation of oxathiane 16 with butyllithium, addition of an appropriate aldehyde and subsequent oxidation lead to the acylated oxathianes 17 which can be used in diastereose-lective nucleophilic addition reactions. 

Besides 1,3-oxathianes, the 1,3-dithiane 1-oxide moiety can be used for directing the nucleophilic addition of an organometallic reagent to a carbonyl group in a diastereoselective manner. The addition of methylmagnesium iodide to the 2-acyl-l,3-dithiane 1-oxide 23A leads exclusively to the diastereomer which is formed by Re-side attack. On the other hand, addition... 

The crystal structures of [Ag(l,4-dioxane)]AsF69 9 and [Ag2(l,4-oxathiane)](N03)295° have been reported. Two adducts of the 4-nitropyridine A-oxide with silver nitrate have been characterized, one is a mononuclear tetracoordinated compound [Ag(N03)(0NC5H4N02)2] and the other is a dinuclear pentacoordinated species [Ag2(N03)2(/u-0NC5H4N02)2(0NC5H4N02)2] (130).951,952 In the mixed compound /nmv-[RhCl2(py)4]N03-AgN03 exists the dinitroargentate(I) ion in a distorted tetrahedral environment 953... 

Sultones react easily with amines and anilines <1989PHA294, 1989EJC259, 1987LA481> 1,2-oxathiin 2,2-dioxide derivatives 104 condensed to give the corresponding sultams 105 but 1,2-oxathiane 2,2-oxides 16 were cleaved by aniline or benzoylhydrazine derivatives to provide the corresponding sulfonic acids 106 (Scheme 25) <1993AFF256>. 

Similarly, using either sulfuric acid, the SOs/dioxane complex, or a solution of SO3 in chloroform/dioxane, 4,6-diphenyl-l,2-oxathiin 2,2-dioxide was obtained from phenyl acetylene <1999RJ0415>, 3,6-disubstituted-l,2-oxathiane 2,2-dioxides were obtained from allylphenol <2002RJ01210>, and 3,4-dihydro-6-phenyl-l,2-oxathiin-4-one 2,2-oxide was obtained from Ph-CO-CH2-COMe <1991CIL253>. 

Racemic 2-aryl-l,3-oxathianes have been oxidized to chiral, nonracemic sulfoxides using H202-urea as oxidant and Ti-salen complexes in catalytic amounts. High ee (94% at 41% conversion) was achieved by this method (Equation 43) <2003CH24>. 

A reversal of the stereochemical outcome of the reduction of 2-acyl-l,3-oxathianes was demonstrated when the 1,3-oxathiane 3-oxide instead of 1,3-oxathiane was treated with chelating reducing agents, such as L-selectride (Equation 63) <1998BKC911>. 

One of the main research interests in this area is to find new oxidizing agents having the highest chemoselectivity to obtain the sulfoxide derivatives without overoxidation to sulfones. 1,4-Oxathiane 18 was often used as a model sulfur-containing compound to afford 82 (Table 2) and 17 similarly gave 83. m-2,6-Dimethyl-l,4-dithiane was oxidized to the... 

In a similar way, 1,4-oxathian-2-one and l,4-dioxan-2-one were obtained from the condensation of thioglycolic acid and glycolic acid, respectively <1979J(P1)1893, 1998T11445>, and from palladium-catalyzed <1999JOC6750> or oxoammonium salt <2004JOC5116> oxidations of 2,2 -thiodiethanol or diethylene glycol. Asymmetric syntheses... 

Oxathiane 2-oxides aie fonned by the oxidative ring expansion of 2-alkylthio-2-benzylthiolane 1-oxides brought about by [bis(trifluoroacetoxy)iodo]benzene. That the reaction is only successful with the (lR )-diastereoisomeis is attributed to chelation between the nucleophilic S and O atoms and the hypervalent iodine <99EJ0943>. A diazo-mediated thiolane ring expansion is the key step in a synthesis of the acenaphtho-[U-b][l,4]oxathiine system <99JCS(P2)755>. 

The sulfoxide that has been studied was obtained by the oxidation of a sulfide, namely, (2S,6K)-6-(hydroxymethyl)-2-methoxy-1,4-oxathiane,47 synthesized from methyl 6-O-trityl-a-D-glucopyrano-... 

An asymmetric synthesis of mevalolactone in over 87% e.e. employs a 1,3-oxathiane as the chiral auxiliary (81TL2859). The reagent (818), easily prepared from (+)-pulegone (81TL2855), was metallated with u-butyllithium and the anion reacted with acetaldehyde. Oxidation of the diastereomeric mixture of alcohols to the ketone (819) and reaction of... 

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