Reaction with thiol anions

Sulphur bond formation—Interesting examples of substitutions into alkyl side chains in picoline 1-oxide quaternary salts during reactions with thiol anions have been mentioned already (p. 250). 

Bis(benzotriazol-lyl)methanethione 974 is easily prepared from thiophosgene and l-(trimethylsilyl)benzotriazole <1978JOC337>. In reactions with thiols and triethylamine, thiones 974 are converted to derivatives 973 in modest yields the main side products result from nucleophilic attacks of the thiolate anions on the thione sulfur atom to produce disulfides <2005JOC7866>. In reactions with amines, compounds 974 are smoothly converted to l-(thiocarbamoyl)benzotriazoles 975 <2004JOC2976>. Substitution of one of the benzotriazolyl groups in 974 by phenolate anions yields l-(aryloxythioacyl)benzotriazoles 978 (Scheme 161) <2005JOC7866>. 

The kinetics of the reaction of 2 -deoxyuridin-L-yl radicals (11) with thiols, with superoxide release from the peroxyl radical (13) generated, have been reported. Radical (11) is produced by photolysis of precursor (10). When the radical is produced in the presence of thiols, (12) is formed. Second-order kinetics were found for the reactions with thiols. Peroxyl radical (13) is formed in the presence of oxygen. This undergoes heterolytic fragmentation to the superoxide anion O2 and cation (14), which ultimately leads to 2-deoxyribonolactone (15). 

Aquated electron, reaction with disulphides 492 reaction with enzymes 493 reaction with thiols 485, 486 Arizidines, reaction with thiolate anions 728... 

Matheis and Whitaker (59) reviewed the chemistry of the modification of proteins by polyphenol oxidase and peroxidase. Monophenols such as tyrosine are first hydroxylated to dihydroxyphenylalanine (DOPA). The DOPA is then oxidized to an ortho-quinone. Ortho-quinones can undergo at least two types of reactions with thiols. Two molecules of a thiol can participate in an oxidation-reduction reaction with a quinone to form the corresponding hydroquinone and a disulfide, or the thiol anions may add to the conjugated system of a quinone to form a substituted hydroquinone. An excess of quinone in the reaction mixture usually oxidizes the monosubstituted quinone, which may then participate in another nucleophilic addition, and so on (Figure 13). The cysteine adduct(s) cannot further react with amino groups to form brown products. 

Treatment of a thiol with a base, such as NaH, gives the corresponding thiolate ion (RS-), which undergoes reaction with a primary or secondary alkyl halide to give a sulfide. The reaction occurs by an Sn2 mechanism, analogous to the Williamson synthesis of ethers (Section 18.2). Thiolate anions are among... 

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. 

Rainier devised a variant of the 5-exo-dig radical cyclization of 2-alkynylisocyanides 122 wherein thiols were utilized to both initiate the radical cascade as well as act as nucleophiles in the reaction with the indolenine intermediate 123 yielding the indoles 124 . When R = TMS, elimination of the C-10 thioether can be effected in a gramine-like fashion so as to add nucleophiles (e.g., malonate anion) in the presence of Bu3P allowing for the preparation of more highly functionalized indoles. 

Ar-Acyl oxy- A -a 1 k oxyamides have been found to undergo SN2 reactions with a number of organic and inorganic nucleophiles including anilines, thiols, hydroxide and azide anions. Reaction products from all of these processes are themselves reactive anomeric amides and outcomes have uncovered novel chemistry of this unusual class of compounds. 

The attack by the thiolate anion on the N-oxide oxygen of 62 produces the intermediate sulfenic acid derivative 65, which, in the presence of thiols, further reacts with the thiolate anion, to give the oxime 66, which has been isolated among the reaction products. By contrast, spontaneous loss of the halide anion from 65 affords the ni-troso intermediate 67 that, by losing NO and the thiyl radical directly, or through 68, produces the a-nitrosoolefm 69. By a Michael type reaction with water this last product immediately yields the final oxime 70, which has been isolated among the reaction products. 

There have been fewer studies of the reactions of M ions with potential ligand molecules. Laser ablation, which has been the major ionization source for the production of bare metal ions, produces very few negative ions. Electron impact with low-energy electrons (12 eV) of metal carbonyls has been used to produce [Co(CO)4]- and Fc( CO)4 from Co2(CO)8 and Fe(CO)5. Collision-induced dissociation of these two anions produced Co- and Fc, which could be isolated. Both Co- and Fe were reacted with H2S, aliphatic thiols, aromatic thiols, CS2, and disulfides (153). Reactions with H2S gave the metal monosulfide anion [MS]-, which reacted with H2S by two pathways. 

The reactivity of thiols has been studied in connection with the catalytic function of sulfhydryl enzymes. When nucleophilic reactions of thiolate anions towards PNPA were compared, the thiolate reactivity in vitro was always very small relative to those observed in vivo. Although the details of enzymatic activation mechanisms are far from clear, there is general agreement that this large difference can be attributed to differing microenvironments around the SH group. 

In an extension of the procedure, thiols react with gem-dihaloalkanes (Table 4.4) to produce thioacetals [ 10,20-23] and the reaction can be employed in the Corey-Seebach synthesis of aldehydes and ketones (see ref. 24 and references cited therein), gem-Dichlorocyclopiopanes having an electron-withdrawing group at the 2-position react with thiols to produce the thioacetals [25]. In the corresponding reaction of the thiols with biomochloromethane exclusive nucleophilic substitution of the bromo group by the thiolate anion occurs to yield the chloromethyl thioethers [13, 14] (Table 4.5). 

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