Sulfur-containing heterocycle

Active Raney nickel induces desulfurization of many sulfur-containing heterocycles thiazoles are fairly labile toward this ring cleavage agent. The reaction occurs apparently by two competing mechanisms (481) in the first, favored by alkaline conditions, ring fission occurs before desul-, furization, whereas in the second, favored by the use of neutral catalyst, the initial desulfurization is followed by fission of a C-N bond and formation of carbonyl derivatives by hydrolysis (Scheme 95). 

Sulfur containing heterocycles are also common Compounds m which sulfur is the heteroatom m three four five and six membered rings as well as larger rings are all well known Two interesting heterocyclic compounds that contain sulfur-sulfur bonds are hpoic acid and lenthiomne... 

The name of the parent six membered sulfur containing heterocycle is thiane It is num bered beginning at sulfur Multiple incorporation of sulfur in the ring is indicated by the prefixes di tri and so on... 

Trichloromethanesulfenyl chloride is useful in the preparation of various series of sulfur-containing heterocycles. A commercially significant example is the preparation of l,2,4-thiadia2oles. 

Vinyl chloride reacts with sulfides, thiols, alcohols, and oximes in basic media. Reaction with hydrated sodium sulfide [1313-82-2] in a mixture of dimethyl sulfoxide [67-68-5] (DMSO) and potassium hydroxide [1310-58-3], KOH, yields divinyl sulfide [627-51-0] and sulfur-containing heterocycles (27). Various vinyl sulfides can be obtained by reacting vinyl chloride with thiols in the presence of base (28). Vinyl ethers are produced in similar fashion, from the reaction of vinyl chloride with alcohols in the presence of a strong base (29,30). A variety of pyrroles and indoles have also been prepared by reacting vinyl chloride with different ketoximes or oximes in a mixture of DMSO and KOH (31). 

Competitive metallation experiments with IV-methylpyrrole and thiophene and with IV-methylindole and benzo[6]thiophene indicate that the sulfur-containing heterocycles react more rapidly with H-butyllithium in ether. The comparative reactivity of thiophene and furan with butyllithium depends on the metallation conditions. In hexane, furan reacts more rapidly than thiophene but in ether, in the presence of tetramethylethylenediamine (TMEDA), the order of reactivity is reversed (77JCS(P1)887). Competitive metallation experiments have established that dibenzofuran is more easily lithiated than dibenzothiophene, which in turn is more easily lithiated than A-ethylcarbazole. These compounds lose the proton bound to carbon 4 in dibenzofuran and dibenzothiophene and the equivalent proton (bound to carbon 1) in the carbazole (64JOM(2)304). 

When selectivity is not a problem, as m intramolecular cycUzation, useful synthetic routes to sulfur-containing heterocycles can be used [28] (equation 18)... 

Thus, the reaction of 4-dialkylaminobut-3-yn-2-ones with various bifunctional reagents makes it possible to carry out a targeted synthesis of five- and six-membered nitrogen-, oxygen-, and sulfur-containing heterocycles having two heteroatoms. 

The isosteric relationship of benzene and thiophene has often led medicinal chemists to substitute the sulfur containing heterocycle for benzene drugs in biologically active molecules. That this relationship has some foundation in fact is attested by the observation that the resulting analogs often possess full biologic activity. Alkylation of the diamine, 71 (obtained from aniline and the chloroethylamine), with 2-chloromethylthiophene affords the antihistamine methaphenylene (72) The correspond-... 

Thiophene, a sulfur-containing heterocycle, undergoes typical aromatic substitution reactions rather than addition reactions. Why is thiophene aromatic ... 

Silylthioaldehydes 103, reactive dienophiles formed in situ from acetals according to a general method, are directly trapped with dienes to afford sulfur-containing heterocyclic compounds in good yield (Equation 2.29). Silylthioaldehydes are quite reactive in comparison with the aliphatic ones [102] which are rather inert in the cycloaddition reactions. 

Five-membered sulfur-containing heterocycles are important synthetic intermediates and have found a variety of applications in medical, agricultural, and material chemistry. Looking for potential candidates for ferroelectric display applications. Seed s group investigated the preparation of liquid crystals... 

PEC. The patent includes the production method for the biocatalyst, with a characteristic inhibitory effect on certain enzyme expression. The expression recombinant vector contains a promoter free from manifesting inhibition due to an inorganic sulfur compound or a sulfur-containing amino acid. The recombinant microorganism also contains a gene for desulfurizing the sulfur-containing heterocyclic compound. 

Two patents were awarded on microbial desulfurization of sulfur-containing heterocyclic compound [155,156], the first targeting DBT and alkylated DBTs and the other benzothiophenes and alkylated benzothiophenes. In both cases, the selective cleavage of the C—S bonds is reported as the main mechanism. The claimed bacteria strains are Mycobacterium G3 strain (PERM P-16105) and R. erythropolis KA2-5-1 strain (PERM P-16277), respectively. Special emphasis was made to the desulfurization of the recalcitrant 4,6-dimethyl-dibenzothiophene. The main product from DBT... 

In Carmack s mechanism, the most unusual movement of a carbonyl group from methylene carbon to methylene carbon was proposed to go through an intricate pathway via a highly reactive intermediate with a sulfur-containing heterocyclic ring. The sulfenamide serves as the isomerization catalyst ... 

In any event, 02SbFg and 02AsFg act as very effective one-electron oxidants with regard to aromatic amines, nitrogen- and sulfur-containing heterocyclic compounds (Dinnocenzo and Banach 1986, 1988,1989) as well as to perfluorobenzene, benzotrifiuoride, and perfluoronaphthalene (Richardson et al. 1986). The oxidation proceeds in Freon (CHCIF2) at temperatures from -115 to -145°C, and the formation of the organic cation-radicals has been firmly established. 

The only known aminopyrans 189, fused with a six-membered sulfur-containing heterocycle, were obtained from thiochromenone 190 with arylidenemalononitriles 30 (91EJM221) (Scheme 70). 

Five-membered oxygen- and sulfur-containing heterocyclic ketones reveal notable reactivity (03RCB961, 03RCB1380). Benzo[fc]furan-3-one 204 with arylidenemalononitriles 30 gives dibenzo[b,d]pyrans 206 instead of expected pyran 205 as a result of Michael reaction and the exchange of methylene components (03RCB961) (Scheme 77). 

The various possibilities for the first two types of syntheses are listed schematically in Table 4, and the possibilities for synthesis from other heterocycles are listed in Table 5. In each case the method is discussed in more detail in the following sections Tables 4 and 5 indicate the section(s) in which a particular reaction is described. In the case of sulfur-containing heterocycles, 5-oxides and 5,5-dioxides are treated alongside the basic parent structures, since for 1,3,2-dioxathiolane, 1,2,3-oxadithiolane, and 1,2,5-oxadithiolane the unoxidized rings are unknown. 

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