Sulfide alkyl aryl 2- cyclohexanone

A systematic study of the sulfoxidation by cyclohexanone monooxygenase from Acinetobacter using as the substrates many alkyl aryl sulfides, dialkyl sulfides and dialkyl disulfides has been carried out by Carrea, Colonna, and colleagues in the presence of NADP and a NADPH-regenerating system [143,144]. Chemical yields are good (at 0.8 mmol scale), with wide variations of ee s (from 0 to 98%) according to the structure of the sulfides. 

Alkyl- or aryl-dibenzothiophenes are conveniently prepared from the 2-arylthio-cyclohexanones, which are readily cyclized and dehydrogenated to yield the respective 1-, 2-, 3- or 4-substituted dibenzothiophenes (382 equation 9 Section 3.15.2.3.2). More complex polycyclic systems are available, using suitable aryenethiols, such as naph-thalenethiols, and 2-bromo-l-tetralone to synthesize the appropriate 2-arylthio ketones. Diaryl sulfides can be converted to dibenzothiophene derivatives in satisfactory yields by photolysis in the presence of iodine (equation 10) (75S532). Several alkyldibenzothiophenes with substituents in the 2- and/or 3-positions were prepared in satisfactory yield by the condensation of dichloromethyl methyl ether with substituted allylbenzo[6]thiophenes (equation 11) (74JCS(P1)1744). 

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