Oxaziridines, reaction with thiiranes

Experiments with cyclic thioethers (80JCS(P1)1693), thiourea, thiocyanate and ethyl xan-thate always led to destruction of oxaziridines (73AJC2159). Products of complicated consecutive reactions could be isolated but only with some difficulty, e.g. (92) from a reaction with carbon disulfide (74JOC957), and (93), obtained by trapping with butadiene a product of a reaction between an oxaziridine and a thiirane (80JOC1691). 

The formal addition of an oxygen atom across the carbonyl group gives rise to dioxiranes (equation 33). In practice, this reaction is effected with Oxone, and dimethyldioxirane (30) and other dioxiranes have been generated in solutions of their parent ketones.Dioxirane (30) has been implicated in oxidations of alkenes, sulfides and iinines. The formal addition of nitrogen across a carbon-oxygen double bond to afford oxaziridines has been reviewed (equation 34).There are also many methods available for the indirect conversion of carbonyl compounds to aziridines > and thiiranes using multi-step conversions. 

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