Tetrahydrothiophene thiophene

Picoline Tetrahydrothiophene Thiophene Figure 15-1. Picoline, tetrahydrothiophene, thiophene. 

Thiophenes and Tetrahydrothiophenes. Thiophenes (thioles) are subject to aromatic hydroxylation tetrahydrothiophenes (thiolanes) undergo oxidation of the sulfur to give sulfoxides or sulfones. 

Tetrachloroethane n-Tetradecane Tetrafluoromethane Tetrahydropyran-2-methanol Tetrahydrothiophene Thiophene Toluene diisocyanate Toluene-2,4-diisocyanate Tributylamine Trichlorofluoromethane... 

Reduction and Hydrodesulfurization. Reduction of thiophene to 2,3- and 2,5-dihydrothiophene and ultimately tetrahydrothiophene can be achieved by treatment with sodium metal—alcohol or ammonia. Hydrogen with Pd, Co, Mo, and Rh catalysts also reduces thiophene to tetrahydrothiophene [110-01-0] a malodorous material used as a gas odorant. 

Does the fact that thiophene reacts similarly to benzene mean that it is aromatic One way to tell is to calculate first and second hydrogenation energies of thiophene, leading to dihydrothiophene and tetrahydrothiophene, respectively. (The energy of hydrogen is provided at right.)... 

Dichlorothiophene has become easily available through chlorination and dehydrochlorination of tetrahydrothiophened Another example of the aromatization of tetrahydrothiophene derivatives is the preparation of 3-substituted thiophenes by the reaction of 3-ketotetrahydrothiophene with Grignard reagents followed by the aromatization of the intermediate dihydrothiophene. Recent gas chromatographic analysis showed, however, that 2,3-dichlorothio-phene is the main product from the dehydrochlorination of tetra-chlorotetrahydrothiophene. 

The electric dipole moments in units 1 X 10 18 e. s. u. of these molecules and their derivatives by hydrogenation measured19 in benzene solution are the following furan, 0.670 2,5-di-hydrofuran, 1.53 tetrahydrofuran, 1.68 pyrrole, 1.80 pyrroline, 1.42 pyrrolidine, 1.57 thiophene, 0.54 and tetrahydrothiophene, 1.87. We now give a very rough interpretation of these quantities based on the bond moments given... 

The potential of MIL-47 and MIL-53(A1) for adsorption of other types of aromatic adsorbates has also been explored, for instance, of dichlorobenzene, cresol, or alkylnaphthalene isomers [17, 98]. The removal of sulfur-containing aromatics from fuels via physisorption on MOFs has been investigated on several instances in literature, for instance, via the selective removal of thiophene from a stream of methane gas by MIL-47 [99], the removal of tetrahydrothiophene from methane by... 

In contrast, synthesis of 3,4-diphosphorylthiophenes requires more elaboration because of low reactivity of 3,4-positions of thiophene and unavailability of 3,4-dihalo or dimetallated thiophenes. Minami et al. synthesized 3,4-diphosphoryl thiophenes 16 as shown in Scheme 24 [46], Bis(phosphoryl)butadiene 17 was synthesized from 2-butyne-l,4-diol. Double addition of sodium sulfide to 17 gave tetrahydrothiophene 18. Oxidation of 18 to the corresponding sulfoxide 19 followed by dehydration gave dihydrothiophene 20. Final oxidation of 20 afforded 3,4-diphosphorylthiophene 16. 3,4-Diphosphorylthiophene derivative 21 was also synthesized by Pd catalyzed phosphorylation of 2,5-disubstituted-3,4-dihalothiophene and converted to diphosphine ligand for Rh catalysts for asymmetric hydrogenation (Scheme 25) [47],... 

Thiophene is the typical model compound, which has been extensively studied for typifying gasoline HDS. Although, some results are not completely understood, a reaction network has been proposed by Van Parijs and Froment, to explain their own results, which were obtained in a comprehensive set of conditions. In this network, thiophene is hydrodesulfurized to give a mixture of -butenes, followed by further hydrogenation to butane. On the considered reaction conditions, tetrahydrothiophene and butadiene were not observed [43], The consistency between the functional forms of the rate equations for the HDS of benzothiophene and thiophene, based on the dissociative adsorption of hydrogen, were identical [43,44], suggesting equivalent mechanisms. 

The resulting tetrahydropyrroles and tetrahydrothiophenes could be easily aromatized under basic conditions (Scheme 36), thus allowing a convenient access to a new class of pyrrole and thiophene derivatives, which have found application in the preparation of new organic materials [304-308]. 

Catalytic hydrogenation of thiophene poses a problem since noble metal catalysts are poisoned, and Raney nickel causes desulfurization. Best catalysts proved to be cobalt polysulfide [425], dicobalt octacarbonyl [426], rhenium heptasulfide [5i] and rhenium heptaselenide [54]. The last two require high temperatures (230-260°, 250°) and high pressures (140, 322 atm) and give 70% and 100% of tetrahydrothiophene (thiophane, thiolene), respectively. 

In the absence of a dipolarophile, thiocarbonyl ylide 84 undergoes a 1,4-hydrogen shift to give the naphthoannelated thiophene derivative 85. Many examples of related syntheses have been reported (139-143). The photolysis of tetraarylthiiranes in the presence of tetracyanoethene represents an approach to tetrahydrothiophenes via a SET mechanism (75,76). 

Tetrahydrothiophene gives108 much the same product mixture as thiophene, lending further support to the theory that saturated compounds are desaturated before fluorination in this case this theory is strengthened by the conversion, in 10% yield, of tetrahydrothiophene into thiophene by potassium trifluorocobaltate(II) (KCoF,) containing a small amount of potassium tetrafluorocobaltate(III) (at 290 °C). 

Fig. 29. Correlation between relative hydrogenolysis reactivity and the electron densities on sulfur. ( ) Reaction conditions 300°C, 71 atm, sulfided CoO-Mo03/A1203 (5). (1) DBT (2) benzo[fo]naphtho[2,3-4]thiophene (3) 7,8,9,10-tetrahydrobenzo[b]naphtho[2,3-rf]thio-phene (4) 5b,6,ll,lla-tetrahydrobenzo[fc]naphtho[2,3-d]thiophene. (O) Reaction conditions 450°C, 1 atm, sulfided CoO-Mo03/A1203(6). (5) Thiophene (6) tetrahydrothiophene (7) benzothiophene (8) 2,3-dihydrobenzothiophene. ( + ) Reaction conditions 360°C, 2.9 MPa, sulfided NiO-Mo03/Al203(3). (9) 1-Methyl-DBT (10) 2- or 3-methyl-DBT (11) 4-methyl-DBT (12) 4,6-dimethyl-DBT. (A) Reaction conditions 300°C, 102 atm, sulfided CoO-Mo03/ Al203(8). (13) 2,8-Dimethyl-DBT (14) 3,7-dimethyl-DBT (15) 4-methyl-DBT (16) 4,6-di-methyl-DBT. Reprinted with permission from Ref. 38, Ma et al. (1995). Copyright 1995 American Chemical Society.

Reduced thiophenes and furans are named systematically as 2,3-dihydro (12), 2,5-dihydro (13) and 2,3,4,5-tetrahydro compounds (14). Alternatively, delta (A) can be used to indicate the position of the remaining double bond. Thus, (12) and (13) are named as A2- and A3-dihydro compounds, respectively tetrahydrothiophene is also called thiophane. 

The catalytic properties of unsupported transition metal sulphides have been examined for the reaction of dehydrogenation of tetrahydrothiophene. This study has shown that a selectivity higher than 90% for thiophene formation can be obtained for the most active catalysts, essentially the second row sulphide catalysts. The comparison between the catalytic activities in both dehydrogenation of tetrahydrothiophene and... 

The catalysts were tested in the dehydrogenation of tetrahydrothiophene (DHN of THT), the hydrodesulphurization of thiophene (HDS of thiophene) and the hydrogenation of biphenyl (HN of BP). The reactions were carried out in the vapor phase using dynamic flow microreactors equipped with an automatic online analysis. Reaction conditions are given in Table 1. 

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