Sulfones nucleophiles

For many secondary sulfonates, nucleophilic substitution seems to be best explained by a concerted mechanism with a high degree of carbocation character at the transition state. This has been described as an exploded transition state. Both the breaking and forming bonds are relatively weak so that the carbon has a substantial positive charge. However, the carbocation per se has no lifetime because bond breaking and fonnadon occur concurrently."... 

When Z is SOR or SO2R (e.g., a-halo sulfoxides and sulfones), nucleophilic substitution is retarded. The SnI mechanism is slowed by the electron-withdrawing effect of the SOR or SO2R group,and the Sn2 mechanism presumably by the steric effect. 

Addition of Lithiated Sulfoxides and Sulfones Nucleophilic addition of lithiated methylaryl sulfoxides (384) to nitrones of various structures proceeds easily and in good yields (622). The reactions are applied to the synthesis of optically active a-substituted and a,a-disubstituted hydroxylamines, to secondary amines (623), and to enantioselective syntheses of alkaloids (624). The preferred approach to (+ )-euphococcinine is based on the use of homochiral 3-sullinyl nitrones (385) (Scheme 2.167). 

Polystyrene-bound isothiuronium chloride, which is readily prepared from chloro-methyl polystyrene and thiourea, has been used as a starting material for the preparation of various substituted pyrimidines (Entries 9-11, Table 15.28). After oxidation to the corresponding sulfones, nucleophilic cleavage with amines proceeds smoothly to yield substituted 2-aminopyrimidine derivatives (see Section 3.8). 

Ethoxycarbonyl groups show efficient regiodirecting powers in sulfonate additions, giving exclusive C—S bond formation at the allyl terminus remote to the carbonyl functionality (equation 284).219 Remote oxygen functionality also directs incoming sulfonate nucleophiles to the distal allyl terminus (equation 285).215... 

Oxidation to. sulfoxides and sulfones Nucleophilic Attack on Ring Atoms... 

The alkoxide attacks die alkene in the vinyl sulfone. Nucleophilic attacks on this alkene are easy because of its sulfone-induced electron-deficiency. 

T. Lee et. al. [167] reported a series of 2,5,6,7-tetrasubstituted thiazolo[4,5-b]pyridine derivatives (168) from solid-phase s)mthesis. Thorpe-Ziegler type cyclization of solid supported cyanocarbonimidodithioate with a-halo ketones gave thiazole resin, which were transformed to the preferred thiazolop5rridine resin by the Friedlander procedure under microwave irradiation conditions. After oxidation of sulfides to sulfones, nucleophilic desulfonative substitution with amines 4elded the target thiazolo[4,5-b]pyridine derivatives. 

A partial solution to the problem of difunctional reactivity of alkoxy sulfonate nucleophiles during the macromolecular substitution of PDCP was proposed by Ganapathiappan et al. [25] and is presented in Fig. 5. Here the disodium salt of 2-hydroxyethanesulfonic acid is reacted with an excess of linear PDCP in the presence of a phase-transfer catalyst. A partially substituted, crosshnked semi-product is obtained, which is then treated with another nucleophile, the monofunctional sodium salt of 2-(2-methoxyethoxy)ethanol, to displace the sulfonate groups and chlorines attached to phosphorous atoms. It was found that the amount of sulfonate groups incorporated into the polyphosphazene was generally 50% of that initially used in the reaction mixture. 

The higjily water-soluble dienophiles 2.4f and2.4g have been synthesised as outlined in Scheme 2.5. Both compounds were prepared from p-(bromomethyl)benzaldehyde (2.8) which was synthesised by reducing p-(bromomethyl)benzonitrile (2.7) with diisobutyl aluminium hydride following a literature procedure2.4f was obtained in two steps by conversion of 2.8 to the corresponding sodium sulfonate (2.9), followed by an aldol reaction with 2-acetylpyridine. In the preparation of 2.4g the sequence of steps had to be reversed Here, the aldol condensation of 2.8 with 2-acetylpyridine was followed by nucleophilic substitution of the bromide of 2.10 by trimethylamine. Attempts to prepare 2.4f from 2.10 by treatment with sodium sulfite failed, due to decomposition of 2.10 under the conditions required for the substitution by sulfite anion. 

Nucleophilic reactivity of exocyclic sulfur appears in acidic medium. 2-AryI thiazolyl sulfones are obtained from the corresponding sulfides by oxidation with HjO- in HOAc at 100°C (272). The same oxidation takes place with alkyl sulfides (203. 214, 273-275) and dithiazolylsulfides (129). However, the same reaction with 2-benzylthio derivatives gives benzylal-cohol and the related A-4-thiazoline-2-thione (169). 

Thiazole sulfonic acid reacts with nucleophiles leading to the corresponding 2-substituted compounds (140. 141, and 142) (Scheme 73) (39, 334). 

Aromatic nucleophilic substitution of 2- or 5-halogenotltia20les (146 and 148) by sulfinate affoiMs an alternative method of preparation of sulfones (147 and 149) (Scheme 76) (170, 354-356). 

Alkyl sulfonate esters resemble alkyl halides m their ability to undergo ehmma tion and nucleophilic substitution... 

Because halides are poorer leaving groups than p toluene sulfonate alkyl p toluene sulfonates can be converted to alkyl halides by 8 2 reactions involving chloride bro mide or iodide as the nucleophile... 

Sulfonate esters are subject to the same limitations as alkyl halides Competition from elimination needs to be considered when planning a functional group transforma tion that requires an anionic nucleophile because tosylates undergo elimination reactions just as alkyl halides do... 

An advantage that sulfonate esters have over alkyl halides is that their prepara tion from alcohols does not involve any of the bonds to carbon The alcohol oxygen becomes the oxygen that connects the alkyl group to the sulfonyl group Thus the configuration of a sulfonate ester is exactly the same as that of the alcohol from which It was prepared If we wish to study the stereochemistry of nucleophilic substitution m an optically active substrate for example we know that a tosylate ester will have the same configuration and the same optical purity as the alcohol from which it was prepared... 

The mechanisms by which sulfonate esters undergo nucleophilic substitution are the same as those of alkyl halides Inversion of configuration is observed m 8 2 reac tions of alkyl sulfonates and predominant inversion accompanied by racemization m 8 1 processes... 

Substitution Reactions on Side Chains. Because the benzyl carbon is the most reactive site on the propanoid side chain, many substitution reactions occur at this position. Typically, substitution reactions occur by attack of a nucleophilic reagent on a benzyl carbon present in the form of a carbonium ion or a methine group in a quinonemethide stmeture. In a reversal of the ether cleavage reactions described, benzyl alcohols and ethers may be transformed to alkyl or aryl ethers by acid-catalyzed etherifications or transetherifications with alcohol or phenol. The conversion of a benzyl alcohol or ether to a sulfonic acid group is among the most important side chain modification reactions because it is essential to the solubilization of lignin in the sulfite pulping process (17). 

Delignification Chemistty. The chemical mechanism of sulfite delignification is not fully understood. However, the chemistry of model compounds has been studied extensively, and attempts have been made to correlate the results with observations on the rates and conditions of delignification (61). The initial reaction is sulfonation of the aUphatic side chain, which occurs almost exclusively at the a-carbon by a nucleophilic substitution. The substitution displaces either a hydroxy or alkoxy group ... 

Reactions. In general, isoquiaoline undergoes electrophilic substitution reactions at the 5-position and nucleophilic reactions at the 1-position. Nitration with mixed acids produces a 9 1 mixture of 5-nitroisoquiaoline [607-32-9] and 8-nitroisoquinoline [7473-12-3]. The ratio changes slightiy with temperature (143,144). Sulfonation of isoquiaoline gives a mixture with 5-isoquiaolinesulfonic acid [27655-40-9] as the principal product. 

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