Sulphides diaryl

Olah and coworkers56 found that treatment of dialkyl, arylalkyl and diaryl sulphides with nitronium hexafluorophosphate (or tetrafluoroborate) 32 at —78° in methylene chloride resulted in the formation of sulphoxides in moderate to high yields (Table 3). In the oxidation of diphenyl sulphide which affords diphenyl sulphoxide in 95% yield, small amounts of the ring nitration products (o- and p-nitrophenyl phenyl sulphides) were formed. However, diphenyl sulphone and nitrophenyl phenyl sulphoxide were not detected among the reaction products. 

Chiral alcohols have also been used in an asymmetric synthesis of sulphoxides based on halogenation of sulphides. Johnson and coworkers have found319 that the reaction of benzyl p-tolyl sulphide with JV-chlorobenzotriazole (NCBT) followed by addition of (—) menthol and silver tetrafluoroborate afforded diastereoisomeric menthoxysulphonium salts 267 which, upon recrystallization and hydrolysis, gave benzyl p-tolyl sulphoxide with 87% optical purity (equation 145). More recently, Oae and coworkers reported320 that optically active diaryl sulphoxides (e.e. up to 20%) were formed either by hydrolysis or thermolysis of the corresponding diaryl menthoxysulphonium salts prepared in situ from diaryl sulphides using ( —) menthol and t-butyl hypochlorite. 

Water insoluble tetrabutylammonium metaperiodate, which can be prepared from sodium metaperiodate and tetrabutylammonium hydrogen sulphate in aqueous solution, was found to be a useful reagent for the selective oxidation of sulphides in organic solvents . The reaction was generally carried out in boiling chloroform and gave dialkyl, alkyl aryl and diaryl sulphoxides in yields which are comparable with those reported for sodium metaperiodate in aqueous methanol solution (Table 4). In the case of diaryl sulphoxides, the yields decrease with prolonged reaction time. 

Much higher asymmetric induction was observed in the two-phase oxidation of simple alkyl aryl and diaryl sulphides , substituted alkyl aryl sulphides and dithioacetals of formaldehyde by sodium metaperiodate in the presence of proteins such as bovine serum y-globulin and egg albumin. Optical purities of the sulphoxides so formed ranged between 20 and 85%. 

By oxidative addition of aryl sulphides to low-valent nickel complexes, a C—S bond cleavage occurs to form Ni11 thiolate complexes. For example, exposure of diaryl sulphides to [(But3P)3Ni0] leads to oxidative addition, with nickel inserting into the C—S bond (280).814... 

Quaternary ammonium salts catalyse the reaction of activated halobenzenes with thioiminium salts [52], alkanethiols [10] and thiophenols [29, 53] to yield mixed thioethers and, with sodium sulphide under liquiddiquid or solidiliquid two-phase conditions, symmetrical diaryl sulphides [29,54,55] (Table 2.5). 

The profitable conversion of thiouronium salts into dialkyl thioethers (see Section 4.1) is less successful for synthesis of diaryl thioethers. For example, l-chloro-4-nitrobenzene reacts with bis-thiouronium salts of the type (H2N)2CS(CH2) SC(NH2)2+ under soliddiquid and liquidrliquid conditions to produce the desired bis-thioethers, ArS(CH2) SAr, (20-35%), together with the diaryl sulphide, Ar2S (5-15%). Higher yields of the diaryl sulphide are observed under liquiddiquid conditions whereas, under solidiliquid conditions, the diaryl disulphide, (ArS)2, (20%) is also formed [56], Diaryl disulphides are the sole products (>65%) from the stoichiometric reaction of aryl diazonium salts with benzyltriethylammonium tetrathiomolybdate [57],... 

Symmetrical dialkyl and diaryl thioureas have been prepared in generally good yield (60-90%) from the reaction of the amine with thiophosgene, formed in situ from the catalysed reaction of carbon tetrachloride with sodium sulphide [5], Reaction with diamines yields cyclic ureas. 

Tetra-n-propylammonium perruthenate also oxidizes sulphides to sulphones [45]. Yields are generally high for dialkyl sulphides and alkyl aryl sulphides, but lower for diaryl sulphides. 

A related series of diaryl pyrrolo[l,2-a]imidazoles, represented by SK F 104351 (149), 104493 (150) and 105809 (151), has been reported to show similar profiles [360,366]. In mice and rats, SK F 105809 was a prodrug for the active methyl sulphide SK F 105561 (152), which was about 10-fold more potent in vitro than SK F 86002 [367]. The in vivo profile of SK F 105809, which is reported to be in clinical trials, was similar to that of SK F 86002. 

Benzhydryl ethyl sulphides (general procedure).The diaryl diethylthioacetal derivative (2.0 mmol) in dry DMF (3 mL) is added to a pale yellow suspension of freshly prepared... 

Diaryl sulphides are hthiated ortho to sulphur, but less efficiently than diaryl ethers dibenzothiophene 97, for example, lithiates to give 98 and hence 99. Highhghting preferential lithiation at the more acidic positions ortho to O, 100 gives 101 rather than 102 (Scheme 43). ... 

The lower members of the homologous series of 1. Alcohols 2. Aldehydes 3. Ketones 4. Acids 5. Esters 6. Phenols 7. Anhydrides 8. Amines 9. Nitriles 10. Polyhydroxy phenols 1. Polybasic acids and hydro-oxy acids. 2. Glycols, poly-hydric alcohols, polyhydroxy aldehydes and ketones (sugars) 3. Some amides, ammo acids, di-and polyamino compounds, amino alcohols 4. Sulphonic acids 5. Sulphinic acids 6. Salts 1. Acids 2. Phenols 3. Imides 4. Some primary and secondary nitro compounds oximes 5. Mercaptans and thiophenols 6. Sulphonic acids, sulphinic acids, sulphuric acids, and sul-phonamides 7. Some diketones and (3-keto esters 1. Primary amines 2. Secondary aliphatic and aryl-alkyl amines 3. Aliphatic and some aryl-alkyl tertiary amines 4. Hydrazines 1. Unsaturated hydrocarbons 2. Some poly-alkylated aromatic hydrocarbons 3. Alcohols 4. Aldehydes 5. Ketones 6. Esters 7. Anhydrides 8. Ethers and acetals 9. Lactones 10. Acyl halides 1. Saturated aliphatic hydrocarbons Cyclic paraffin hydrocarbons 3. Aromatic hydrocarbons 4. Halogen derivatives of 1, 2 and 3 5. Diaryl ethers 1. Nitro compounds (tertiary) 2. Amides and derivatives of aldehydes and ketones 3. Nitriles 4. Negatively substituted amines 5. Nitroso, azo, hy-drazo, and other intermediate reduction products of nitro com-pounds 6. Sulphones, sul-phonamides of secondary amines, sulphides, sulphates and other Sulphur compounds... 

Diaryl amines, ethers or sulphides, or their aryl vinyl analogues, provide another 6-electron system related to stilbene, but for these a pair of electrons is provided by the single heteroatom (ArXAr or ArXC=C). With dtaryl compounds the initial photocydized product is a zwitterion that undergoes a proton shift to give, for example, N-methyl-4a,4b-dihydrocarbazole from methyldiphenylamine, with subsequent oxidation to N-methylcarbazole (3.74). With the aryl vinyl analogues the product after the proton shift can normally be isolated (3.751. An especially useful variation of this reaction employs... 

Polyhydroxy- phenols. amino acids, di- and polyamino compounds, amino alcohols. Sulphonic acids. Sulphinic acids. Salts. sulphinic acids, aminosulphonic acids and sulphonamides. Some diketones and /3-keto esters. Ethers and acetals. Lactones. Acyl halides. Diaryl ethers. intermediate reduction products of nitro compounds. Sulphones, sulphonamides of secondary amines, sulphides, sulphates and other sulphur compounds. 

Thiophenols are normally oxidized by BTI to disulphides. However, when they were treated with BTI in the presence of a phenol ether, sulphenylation of the latter occurred with formation of diaryl sulphides. 

By using BTI and trimethylsilyl thiocyanide in hexafluoro-2-propanol, phenol ethers were thiocyanated efficiently [41] (see Section 6.4.5 for an atemative method). Simple sulphides are readily oxidized by BTI, as expected diaryl... 

Arenediazonium tetrafluoroborates react with PhS- ions in DMSO to give diaryl sulphides by the S l mechanism284. However, when the aromatic ring has halogen as a substituent, as in 233, the monosubstitution product 234 and the disubstitution product 235 were obtained depending on the halogen and its position (equation 154). 

Ethylene and thioformaldehyde are the products of irradiation of matrix-isolated thietane at lOK. Sulphur-carbon bond homolysis has also been observed on irradiation of the nucleoside membrane transport inhibitor, 6-[ (4-nitrobenzyl) thio] -9- (/8-D-ribofuranosyl) -purine (94), and the oxazolidin-2-one (95) has been converted into the allyl derivative (96) by photochemically induced radical allylation.Efficient conversion of cyclic thioacetals into the corresponding carbonyl compounds under neutral conditions has been achieved by 2,4,6-triphenylpyrylium tetrafluoroborate-sensitised irradiation in moist dichloromethane,and diaryl sulphides and the corresponding sulphoxides and sulphones have been reported to undergo anion-promoted carbon-sulphur bond photocleavageboth processes appear to involve an initial electron transfer. Sulphur-hydrogen bond horaolysis has been reported in t-butanethiol and is also responsible for the photoinitiated thiylation of fluorobromoethylenes and of trialkylethynylsilanes and t-butylacetylene. 

A rearranged product is obtained when some azido diaryl sulphides are ther-molysed in a high-boiling solvent a spiro intermediate may be involved. 

Dealkylation of alkyl aryl ethers and sulphides by diaryl-posphide or arsenide ions. 

Aliphatic thiols may be prepared from the corresponding halides via a procedure which involves preparation of a-trimethylsiloxy-sulphides followed by extremely mild, two-step, reductive desilylation (Scheme 52). 6 Polymer-supported diaryl selenoxides (35a) and telluroxides... 

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