Sulphides cyclic—

Figure 11.15. Typical chemical groupings in a sulphur-vulcanised natural rubber network, (a) Monosulphide cross-link (b) disulphide cross-link (c) polysulphide cross-link (j = 3-6) (d) parallel vicinal cross-link (n = 1-6) attached to adjacent main-chain atoms and which have the same influence as a single cross-link (e) cross-links attached to common or adjacent carbon atom (f) intra-chain cyclic monosulphide (g) intra-chain cyclic disulphide (h) pendent sulphide group terminated by moiety X derived from accelerator (i) conjugated diene (j) conjugated triene (k) extra-network material (1) carbon-carbon cross-links (probably absent)...

Based on the kinetic studies, a mechanism for this oxidation was proposed45 which involves a nucleophilic attack by the sulphide on a cyclic hydrogen-bonded form of the peracid (equation 9). Since oxidation using peracids occurs under very mild conditions, it can be successfully applied to the preparation of base sensitive sulphoxides. Thus, di(a-bromobenzyl) sulphoxide 25, which is very labile in the presence of a base, was obtained by careful oxidation of a-di(a-bromobenzyl) sulphide by means of m-chloroperbenzoic acid (MCPBA)46 (equation 10). 

Photochemical synthesis of sulphoxides was reported for the first time by Foote and Peters111 in 1971. They found that dialkyl sulphides undergo smoothly dye-photosensitized oxidation to give sulphoxides (equation 32). This oxidation reaction has been postulated to proceed through an intermediate adduct 63, which could be a zwitterionic peroxide, a diradical or cyclic peroxide, which then reacts with a second molecule of sulphide to give the sulphoxide (equation 33). 

The oxidation of a series of cyclic and acyclic sulphides by cytochrome P 450from rabbit liver gave sulphoxides with / -configuration at sulphur. The maximum of the e.e. value (53.8%) was observed for benzyl t-butyl sulphoxide310. 

A. Nucleophilic Reactions.—(/) Attack on Saturated Carbon. The Arbusov reaction has been used to prepare organosilicon-substituted phosphonates (1) and phosphorylated ethers (2a) and sulphides (2b). Bromo- and chloro-derivatives of the cyclic phosphite (3) do not react with ethyl halides... 

It is intriguing to note that this reaction scheme for the reduction of a sulphone to a sulphide leads to the same reaction stoichiometry as proposed originally by Bordwell in 1951. Which of the three reaction pathways predominates will depend on the relative activation barriers for each process in any given molecule. All are known. Process (1) is preferred in somewhat strained cyclic sulphones (equations 22 and 24), process (2) occurs in the strained naphtho[l, 8-hc]thiete 1,1-dioxide, 2, cleavage of which leads to a reasonably stabilized aryl carbanion (equation 29) and process (3) occurs in unstrained sulphones, as outlined in equations (26) to (28). Examples of other nucleophiles attacking strained sulphones are in fact known. For instance, the very strained sulphone, 2, is cleaved by hydride from LAH, by methyllithium in ether at 20°, by sodium hydroxide in refluxing aqueous dioxane, and by lithium anilide in ether/THF at room temperature. In each case, the product resulted from a nucleophilic attack at the sulphonyl sulphur atom. Other examples of this process include the attack of hydroxide ion on highly strained thiirene S, S-dioxides , and an attack on norbornadienyl sulphone by methyllithium in ice-cold THF . ... 

The chemistry of a-haloketones, a-haloaldehydes and a-haloimines Nitrones, nitronates and nitroxides Crown ethers and analogs Cyclopropane derived reactive intermediates Synthesis of carboxylic acids, esters and their derivatives The silicon-heteroatom bond Syntheses of lactones and lactams The syntheses of sulphones, sulphoxides and cyclic sulphides... 

The deoxygenation of aryl 2-nitrophenyl sulphides with tervalent phosphorus compounds is analogous to that of the corresponding ethers except that in many cases the anticipated phosphoranes, e.g. (87), are thermally unstable.58 The extra stability of spirophosphoranes allows them to be isolated, e.g. (13), if cyclic phos-phonites are used in deoxygenation.8... 

The molecular ion appears to retain its cyclic structure, but several ions with two or three phosphorus atoms can be detected.192 The fragmentation patterns of a number of dialkylphosphines (157) show initial loss of an alkyl group as a neutral particle formed by the transposition of hydrogen.193 Some six-membered cyclic phosphites (158 X = OEt, OPh, or Cl) have been studied.194 The mass spectra of a wide variety of phosphine sulphides (159 Z = Ph, Me, CH2Ph, COPh, NH2, N=CHPh, or... 

Although sodium sulphide reacts readily with haloalkanes [2] and activated aryl halides (see Chapter 2) [e.g. 3-5] in the presence of a quaternary ammonium catalyst to form symmetrical thioethers (Table 4.1), a major side reaction results in the formation of disulphides owing to the oxidation of the intermediate thiols under the basic conditions. Consequently, little use has been made of this procedure for the synthesis of thioethers [3, 6], but the corresponding reaction of the a,(0-dihaloalkanes to yield cyclic thioethers has proved to be a valuable procedure for the synthesis of thietanes [7] (Table 4.2). The ring closure with the secondary dihaloalkanes is considerably more difficult to effect than is the reaction of the primary dihaloalkanes. 1,3-Dihydrobenzo[c]thiophene (89%) is produced in the reaction of 1,2-bis(bromomethyl)benzene with sodium sulphide (Scheme 4.1) [8]. The direct... 

A superior and relatively versatile procedure for the synthesis of unsymmetrical dialkyl thioethers, which avoids the unattractive direct use of thiols, utilizes the stable l-alkylthioethaniminium halides, which are readily obtained from thioacet-amidc [32] (Scheme 4.4). The reaction has also been used for the synthesis of alkyl aryl thioethers from activated aryl halides [33], but it cannot be used for the synthesis of cyclic thioethers, as polymeric sulphides are formed from a,co-dihaloalkanes. A similar sequence to that which leads to the thioethers has been used for the synthesis of S-alkyl thioesters [34] (see 4.1.26). 

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