Sultones elimination reactions

Several papers report on the nucleophilic reactivity of dithiocarbamate ions towards alkyl halides, 1,2-dibromoalkyl compounds, alkyl and aryl chloroformates, chloroacetic acid, chloroacetates, 3-halo-genophthalides, sulphenyl chlorides, sultones, and trialkylam-monium compounds. Examples of a similar reactivity of dithiocarbazate anions have also appeared. " A series of papers deal with addition or addition-elimination reactions of dithiocarbamate - or dithiocarbazate anions with w-nitrostyrene, 2-thioxo-, 2-oxo-, and 2-imino-5-methoxycarbonylmethylidene-4-thiazolidones, dimethyl acetylenedicar-boxylate, and NN -dialkyl phenylpropiolamidines. S-Monoalkylated N-cyanodithioimidocarbonates (492) underwent oxidative ring-closure to give 3-halogeno-l,2,4-thiadiazole sulphides (493) on treatment with halogenating agents. ... 

Asymmetric Dieh-Alder Reactions. The commercial availability of either enantiomer of camphorsulfonic acid has made it quite useful in asymmetric Diels-Alder reactions. Reaction of the sultone (generated from CS A) with Lithium Diisopropylamide followed by esterification and (3-elimination yields the crystalline acrylate (eq 14). The Lewis acid-catalyzed [4 + 2] cycloaddition of 1,3-dienes with this acrylate affords the corresponding scalemic adduct which can be reduced with Lithium Aluminum Hydride to yield an enantiomerically pure alcohol (eq 15). ... 

In Chapter 27, King et al. present their work on determining reaction mechanisms for reaction of nucleophiles with sulfonyl chlorides. Many of the same phenomena observed for the more familiar nucleophilic attack at carbon are seen. Evidence is presented for pentavalent intermediates, direct displacement, elimination-addition (through sulfenes, C = S02), neighboring-group participation (through a (3-sultone), and return processes. 

From a study of the hydrolysis of sultone 4 in D20-0D solution, Kaiser and his coworkers showed that carbanion formation occurs rapidly and reversibly from the sultone in basic solution136. They were able to eliminate the concerted mechanism (equation 99) as a major reaction pathway and concluded that a carbanion-sulphene mechanism (equation 100) does not provide an important pathway for the hydrolysis of five-membered sultones. 

Sultones are the internal esters of hydroxy sulfonic acids and sulfur analogs of lactones. The biological activities of sultones are concerned with toxicological, skin sensitization, and antiviral properties [13]. In 2009, Majumdar developed a Pd(PPh3)4-catalyzed intramolecular C-H arylation reaction of benzenesulfonic acid 2-bromophenyl esters to afford polycyclic sultones, which are generally synthesized by elimination of the corresponding hydroxyl sulfonic acid derivatives, in up to 90% yield (Scheme 3.3, path a) [14]. TBAB was found to be critical in this reaction, and no reaction occurred in the absence of this additive. An electrophilic palladation mechanism was proposed for this transformation. 

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