Sulfinic acids sulfones

Sulfur compounds with divalent sulfur functionalities are much more prone to dioxirane oxidation on account of their higher nucleophilicity compared to the above-presented oxygen-type nucleophiles. Examples of this type of dioxirane oxidation abound in the literature. Such a case is the oxidation of thiols, which may be quite complex and afford a complex mixture of oxidation products, e.g. sulfinic acids, sulfonic acids, disulfides, thiosulfonates and aldehydes , and is, therefore, hardly useful in synthesis. Nevertheless, the oxidation of some 9i/-purine-6-thiols in the presence of an amine nucleophile produces n >( -nucleoside analogs in useful yields (equation 19). This reaction also displays the general chemoselectivity trend that divalent sulfur functionalities are more reactive than trivalent sp -hybridized nitrogen compounds P. 

Thiol Sulfenic acid Sulfinic acid Sulfonic acid... 

Sulfinic Acids, Sulfonic Acids and Derivatives Sulfenes 93... 

Although perfluorocarbon sulfonic acid groups are very stable chemically as well as thermally, perfluorocarbon sulfonyl halide, especially sulfonyl chloride groups, are quite reactive. For example, sulfonyl chloride groups react with oxidants, reductants, various amines, phenol compounds, iodine compounds, etc. and give carboxylic acid, sulfinic acid, sulfonic acid amide, -CF2I and so forth. Some examples of how this feature can be used to generate various kinds of membranes will next be described... 

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