Oxidative reactions sulfoxidation

Oxidative Reactions. The majority of pesticides, or pesticide products, are susceptible to some form of attack by oxidative enzymes. For more persistent pesticides, oxidation is frequently the primary mode of metaboHsm, although there are important exceptions, eg, DDT. For less persistent pesticides, oxidation may play a relatively minor role, or be the first reaction ia a metaboHc pathway. Oxidation generally results ia degradation of the parent molecule. However, attack by certain oxidative enzymes (phenol oxidases) can result ia the condensation or polymerization of the parent molecules this phenomenon is referred to as oxidative coupling (16). Examples of some important oxidative reactions are ether cleavage, alkyl-hydroxylation, aryl-hydroxylation, AJ-dealkylation, and sulfoxidation. 

Alkyl- and aryl-thiopyridazines are oxidized to sulfoxides, sulfones or sulfonic acids, depending on the reaction conditions. N- Oxidation can take place simultaneously. 

The mechanism of the oxidation reaction, resulting from treatment of an alcohol with dicyclohexylcarbodiimide and methyl sulfoxide in the presence of a proton source, was elucidated by isotope experiments (24). These confirmed that the reaction proceeded by formation of a... 

Thiols, the sulfur analogs of alcohols, are usually prepared by Sjv 2 reaction of an alkyl halide with thiourea. Mild oxidation of a thiol yields a disulfide, and mild reduction of a disulfide gives back the thiol. Sulfides, the sulfur analogs of ethers, are prepared by an Sk2 reaction between a thiolate anion and a primary or secondary alkyl halide. Sulfides are much more nucleophilic than ethers and can be oxidized to sulfoxides and to sulfones. Sulfides can also be alkylated by reaction with a primary alkyl halide to yield sulfonium ions. 

Treatment of ethyl 2,7-di-/ert-butylthiepin-4-carboxylate (24) with 3-chloroperoxybenzoic acid at — 78 °C results in the benzene derivative 25 only, and no sulfur-oxidized products 80 however, the stable 2,7-di-ter/-butylthiepin (26) can be oxidized with 0-benzyl 00-hydrogen monoper-oxycarbonate at — 78 °C to give the corresponding S-oxide 27, which was monitored by HNMR spectroscopy at — 40°C. At —15 C, sulfoxide 27 was converted, via extrusion of sulfur monoxide, with a half-life of 5.5 hours to the benzene derivative 28.87 The oxidation reaction of 26 with excess of the monoperoxycarbonate did not proceed to the S,S-dioxide, even though the parent thiepin 1,1-dioxide is known to be stable at room temperature.15... 

The tricyclic benzothiazepinone 1 is reduced by ethanolic sodium borohydride to a tetrahydro compound, which is isolated as the sulfoxide 2, formed by air oxidation. Reaction of 1 with dichloroketene or various nitrile oxides results in cycloadducts.426... 

The oxidation of sulfides to sulfoxides are occasionally found to be unsatisfactory, since the resulting sulfoxides are easily oxidized to sulfones. In order to avoid the further oxidation of sulfoxides into sulfones, several oxidizing agents have been selected. Recently, we found that BTMA Bt3 is the most effective and satisfactory oxidizing agent for this purpose. That is, the reaction of sulfides with a calculated amount of BTMA Br3 and aq. sodium hydroxide in dichloromethane at room temperature, or in 1,2-dichloroethane under reflux, gave sulfoxides in good yields (Fig. 28) (ref. 36). 

Recently, Carreno, Urbano and coworkers were also able to synthesize almost enantiopure [7]helicene bisquinones 4-58 and 4-59 (96% ee) by reaction of the sulfoxide (S,S)-4-55 with the diene 4-56 in dichloromethane at -20 °C (Scheme 4.12) [19]. This six-step domino process includes a double Diels-Alder reaction, sulfoxide elimination, and aromatization of the rings B and F of the intermediate 4-57 to give 4-58, which could be oxidized to the fully aromatized 4-59. 

After exposure to an oxidant, the potential types of oxidation products in proteins and peptides can be extensive (Stadtman and Fevine, 2000). Cysteine and methionine undergo a variety of sulfur oxidation reactions to yield cysteine disulfides, methionine sulfoxide, methionine... 

Figure 1.20 Cysteine and methionine are highly susceptible to oxidation reactions. Cysteine thiols can form disulfide linkages with other cysteine groups or be oxidized to cysteic acid. Methionine is oxidized very easily to the sulfoxide or sulfone products.

The same combination of reagents, now with a 3 1 ratio of hydroperoxide to sulfide, gives a quantitative yield of RS(0)2R/. The reactions proceed to completion in about 2h at 323 K in chloroform. Only 0.3-0.5 mol% of 1 relative to RSR was needed. It was shown that oxidation to sulfoxide precedes sulfone formation. Again, the reaction is tolerant of many functional groups (42). 

Similar to nitrogen compounds, electron-rich sulfur compounds, such as the sulfides, with the lone pair of electrons on the sulfur atom, are oxidized to sulfoxides and, further, to sulfones by the H202/titanosilicate sytem (218,232, 233). Table XXXI (232) illustrates typical conversions and product selectivities for various sulfides for the reactions catalyzed by TS-1. Bulky sulfides such as alkyl, phenyl sulfides are relatively unreactive because of their steric exclusion from the pores of TS-1. Diphenyl sulfide could not be oxidized at all. As the diffusivity and, hence, the conversion of the sulfide decreases, the further oxidation of the primary product (sulfoxide) becomes more competitive, leading to increased formation of the corresponding sulfone (Table XXXI) ... 

Although UGTs catalyze only glucuronic acid conjugation, CYPs catalyze a variety of oxidative reactions. Oxidative biotransformations include aromatic and side chain hydroxylation, N-, O-, S-dealkylation, N-oxidation, sulfoxidation, N-hydroxylation, deamination, dehalogenation and desulfation. The majority of these reactions require the formation of radical species this is usually the rate-determining step for the reactivity process [28]. Hence, reactivity contributions are computed for CYPs, but a different computation is performed with the UGT enzyme (as described in Section 12.4.2). 

Oxidation reactions are not limited to those that occur at a carbon centre. The perfluorinated Ni(F-acac)2-benzene-CgFi7Br system described above was also active for the oxidation of sulfides to sulfoxides and sulfones [28], A sacrificial aldehyde is required as co-reductant, but the reaction may be tuned by changing the quantity of this aldehyde. If 1.6 equivalents of aldehyde are used, the sulfoxide is obtained, whereas higher quantities (5 equivalents) lead to sulfones. Fluorous-soluble transition metal porphyrin complexes also catalyse the oxidation of sulfides in the presence of oxygen and 2,2-dimethylpropanal [29],... 

A rare case of asymmetric induction caused by isotopic substitution was observed (326) when optically active (+)-() )-a,a-dideuteriodi-benzyl sulfoxide 331 was chlorinated with dichloroiodobenzene in pyridine, a,a-Dideuteriobenzyl a -chlorobenzyl sulfoxide 332 was obtained as a major regioisomer with at least 78% isotopic purity. The high stereospecificity of the reaction is indicated by formation of essentially only one of the possible diastereomers. Oxidation of sulfoxide 332 affords the sulfone 334, which has high optical rotation. 

Other miscelleanous oxidation reactions involve S-oxidation of thioethers to sulfoxides and sulfones as observed with pergohde (33), the thiomethyl derivative of spironolactone (47), and suHndac (48). 

The oxidation of sulfoxides by aliphatic peroxy acids is first order in both reactants the solvent effects have also been investigated. Thiosulfinates are oxidized by peroxy acids to thiosulfonates and not disulfoxides. It had previously been proposed that the disulfoxides are formed first but homolytically cleave and recombine to give thiosulfonates. A series of ab initio calculations were performed (at the 3-210 and 6-3IG levels) which indicate little difference in the rate of oxidation of S over S(0) in the gas phase but faster S(0) oxidation in a reaction cluster. ... 

Oxidation reactions can be divided into two kinds those in which oxygen is incorporated into the drug molecule, and those in which primary oxidation causes part of the molecule to be lost The former include hydroxylations, epoxidations, and sulfoxidations. Hydroxylations may involve alkyl substituents (e.g., pentobarbital) or aromatic ring systems (e.g propranolol). In both cases, products are formed that are conjugated to an organic acid residue, e.g., glucuronic add, in a subsequent Phase 11 reaction. 

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