Sulfur imides

When the reaction of S2CI2 with ammonia is carried out in a polar solvent, e.g., DMF, the hydrolysis of the reaction mixture with aqueous HCl produces a mixture of the cyclic sulfur imides S7NH, 1,3-, 1,4- and 1,5-S6(NH)2 and 1,3,5- and 1,3,6-S5(NH)3, which can be separated by chromatography on silica gel using CS2 as eluant (Section 6.2.1). °... 

Fig. 3.1 NMR chemical shifts for NH groups in cyclic sulfur imides...

Mass spectrometry played an important role in the recent characterization of small cyclic sulfur imides that are formally derived from the unstable cyclic sulfur allotropes Se and S7 by the replacement of one sulfur atom by an NR group. The compounds SsNOct and SeNOct (Section 6.2.2), which are yellow oils, exhibit molecular ions of medium intensity in their mass spectra. ... 

The formal replacement of a sulfur atom in cyclo-S generates S7NH (6.1), the first member of a series of cyclic sulfur imides that includes the three diimides 1,3-, 1,4-, and 1,5-S6(NH)2 (6.2-6.4), two triimides 1,3,5-and 1,3,6-S5(NH)3, and S4N4H4 (6.5). Isomers of these ring systems containing adjacent NH groups are not known. 

The cyclic sulfur imides readily undergo condensation reactions in the presence of a base, e.g., pyridine. For example, the reaction of S7NH with sulfur halides, S Cla or SOCI2, produces the series (S7N)2Sx (x = 1, 2, 3, 5), or (S7N)2S0, respectively. The bicyclic compound S11N2 (6.6) is obtained by treatment of 1,3-S6(NH)2 with The reaction... 

Sulfur imides with a single NR functionality, S5NR (6.12), SeNR (6.13) (R = Oct), " SgNH (6.14), ° and S9NH (6.15) ° are obtained by a methodology similar to that which has been used for the preparation of unstable sulfur allotropes, e.g., S9 and Sio. Eor example, the metathesis reaction between the bis(cyclopentadienyl)titanium complexes 6.8-6.10 and the appropriate dichlorosulfane yields 6.14 and 6.15 (Eq. 6.4). °... 

It will be convenient to describe first the binary. sulfur nitrides SjN,. and then the related cationic and anionic species, S,Nv. The sulfur imides and other cyclic S-N compounds will then be discus.sed and this will be followed by sections on S-N-halogen and S-N-O compounds. Several compounds which feature i.solated S<—N, S-N, S = N and S=N bonds have already been mentioned in the. section on SF4 e.g. F4S NC,H, F5S-NF2. F2S = NCF3, and FiS=N (p. 687). Flowever. many SN compounds do not lend themselves to simple bond diagrams, - and formal oxidation states are often unhelpful or even misleading. 

Figure 15.43 Stmctures of the various cyclo sulfur imides.

Sulfur and nitrogen form a variety of binary anions with acyclic, cyclic and cage structures.69,70 The Se-N anions are only known in metal complexes. S-N anions play an important role in the formation of cyclic sulfur imides and as constituents of solutions of sulfur in liquid ammonia. 

The reaction of S2C12 with gaseous ammonia in DMF at ca. -10 °C, followed by hydrolysis with cold dilute hydrochloric acid, is a standard preparation of these cyclic sulfur imides.199 The reaction of sodium azide with elemental sulfur in (Me2N)3PO is an excellent source of S7NH. The tetraimide 69 is prepared by reduction of S4N4 with methanolic SnCl2.2H20. 

The vibrational assignments and force constants have been determined from the IR and Raman spectra of S7NH, S415N4H4 and S415N4D4. The 1H and 15N NMR chemical shifts of all the cyclic sulfur imides have been determined by inverse detection methods.202... 

The interaction of cyclic sulfur imides with metal centres involves adduct formation or oxidative addition.106 Examples of the former include the formation of [M(S4N4H4)(CO)5] (70, M=Cr, W) and (S4N4H4)2 AgC104. By contrast, the reaction of 69 with [Pt(PPh3)4] gives pt(PPh3)2(S2N2)]. Monomeric... 

Role of Sulfur-Nitrogen Anions in the Synthesis of Cyclic Sulfur Imides... 

The cyclic sulfur imides S NH and 1,3-, 1,4-, and l,5-S(j(NH)2 are obtained by acid hydrolysis of the deep blue intermediate formed from the reaction of SjClj with ammonia in polar solvents, e.g. DMF or by the reaction of sodium azide with elemental sulfur in HMPA The blue chromophore formed in both these reactions is S4N and it has therefore been suggested that this anion is involved in equilibria with cyclic sulfur-nitrogen anions which are the precursors of the imides... 

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