P-Carbonyl sulfide derivative

The Gassman indole synthesis involves an one-pot process in which hypohalite, a P-carbonyl sulfide derivative 2, and a base are added sequentially to an aniline or a substituted aniline 1 to provide 3-thioalkoxyindoles 3. Raney nickel-mediated desulfurization of 3 then produces the parent indole... 

The reaction of carbonyl sulfide with [M(02)(PPh3)2] (where M = Pd or Pt) has resulted in the first reported examples of transition metal complexes of the monothiocarbonate anion (47 R = 0 ). Bidentate S—O coordination was concluded from P H NMR analyses of these compounds. A short structural review of metal complexes of monothiocarbamate ions (47 R = N(R )R") demonstrates their varied coordination chemistry. In complexes of the dialkyl forms the sulfur atom is seen to have considerable mercaptide character , whereas aromatic amine derivatives demonstrate C—S and M—S partial multiple bonding.A review on the coordination chemistry of these ligands has appeared. Additional detail is provided in Chapter 16.4 of this volume. 

Phenyl propargyl sulfide " and selenide are rapidly deprotonated by 2 equiv. of base. The resulting dilithio derivatives react at their allylic rather than at their alkynic carbon centers (Scheme 34, entries c and d). Reduction of the sulfides allows the synthesis of 1,5-enynes (Scheme 34, entry b), whereas oxidation of the selenides leads to a-phenylseleno-a,P-unsaturated carbonyl compounds (Scheme 34, entry... 

Topics which have formed the subjects of reviews this year include excited state chemistry within zeolites, photoredox reactions in organic synthesis, selectivity control in one-electron reduction, the photochemistry of fullerenes, photochemical P-450 oxygenation of cyclohexene with water sensitized by dihydroxy-coordinated (tetraphenylporphyrinato)antimony(V) hexafluorophosphate, bio-mimetic radical polycyclisations of isoprenoid polyalkenes initiated by photo-induced electron transfer, photoinduced electron transfer involving C o/CjoJ comparisons between the photoinduced electron transfer reactions of 50 and aromatic carbonyl compounds, recent advances in the chemistry of pyrrolidino-fullerenes, ° photoinduced electron transfer in donor-linked fullerenes," supra-molecular model systems,and within dendrimer architecture,photoinduced electron transfer reactions of homoquinones, amines, and azo compounds, photoinduced reactions of five-membered monoheterocyclic compounds of the indigo group, photochemical and polymerisation reactions in solid Qo, photo- and redox-active [2]rotaxanes and [2]catenanes, ° reactions of sulfides and sulfenic acid derivatives with 02( Ag), photoprocesses of sulfoxides and related compounds, semiconductor photocatalysts,chemical fixation and photoreduction of carbon dioxide by metal phthalocyanines, and multiporphyrins as photosynthetic models. 

Another useful strategy for the activation of an amide towards hydrolysis involves intramolecular 0-alkylation of the amide carbonyl. An early rendition of this strategy entailed the use of 4-chlorobutanamides in which cleavage was initiated by treatment with silver(I) perchlorate in aqueous acetone. More re-cently the Fraser-Reid group showed that N-pent-4-enoyl derivatives are rapidly and efficiently cleaved under mild conditions by brief treatment with 3 equivalents of iodine in aqueous THF [Scheme 8.29]. These deprotection conditions do not affect oxidisable functionalities including p-methoxybenzyl ethers and alkyl sulfides though allyloxycarbonyl groups appear to be incompatible. Primary and secondary amines are readily protected as N-pent-4-enoyl derivatives by reaction with pent-4-enoic anhydride. 

The best results were obtained with 20 mol% camphor-derived sulfonium salt 230, with 1.5 equivalents of 3-phenylallyl bromide and one equivalent of chalcone at 0°C in a mixture of fert-butyl alcohol and acetonitrile (2.5 1). The cyclopropanation product was obtained in moderate diastereoselectivity (86/14), good enantiose-lectivity (82% ee) and in high yield (92%). The method could be extended to a variety of a,P-unsaturated carbonyl compounds (Table 7.16). The chiral sulfide 228 could also be employed directly without preformation of the sulfonium salt 230 with similar results. 

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