Sulfur bearing compounds, available

One representative synthesis of prothioconazole starts [95] with the addition of the Grignard derivative of 2-chlorobenzyl chloride on the carbonyl double bond of chloromethyl 1-chloro-cyclopropyl ketone (Scheme 17.19). The untouched chlorine atom of the chloromethyl group is then classically substituted with 1,2,4-triazole. From this intermediate, one way to obtain the 2,4-dihydro-3H-l,2,4-triazole-3-thione of prothioconazole is by direct lithiation of the 1,2,4-triazole at position 5 with n-butyl lithium and reaction with sulfur. The commercially available compound is a mixture of two enantiomers (chirality of the quaternary carbon bearing the hydroxy group). 

Ketenedithioacetals (1) can formally be considered as S.S-dialkylated dithioacids. However, their reactivity pattern is quite different from that displayed by compounds like dithioacids and dithioesters bearing a thiocarbonyl group, and their syntheses and properties are usually treated apart. The review by Kolb [59] and its 254 references give access to most of the literature in the field (see also [60]). a-Oxoketenedithioacetals (2) are particularly versatile compounds as three-carbon synthons in organic synthesis, and some reviews deal specifically with them [61, 62]. Many efficient procedures are available for their syntheses [59, 61], and number of these make use of the reactions of carbon disulfide with carbanionic species followed by alkylation at the sulfur atoms (see [63] and [64] for the reactions of CS2). 

The stereoisomeric mixture of -hydroxyalkyl selenides resulting from the reaction of the a-selenoalkyllithium and the carbonyl compound has been often cleanly and easily separated into its constituents by liquid chromatography on silica gel (Schemes 124,133,134, and 170 172).200.206.222,226,229,258 59 jj,jg has, therefore, allowed the synthesis of each of the two stereoisomers of various di- and tri-substituted alkenes (Schemes 124,170 and 171 Scheme 172, a) and epoxides (Scheme 124 Scheme 172, b), which are otherwise obtained as intractable mixtures of stereoisomers through the conventional phosphorus or sulfur ylide methods. Last but not least, 2-lithio-2-methylselenopropane can be used as the precursor of various compounds bearing gem dimethyl substituted carbons, such as squalene, oxido-squalene, lanosterol and cholesterol. Use of commercially available perdeuterated or Ci or — 2 acetone allows the straightforward synthesis of the corresponding labelled compounds... 

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