Thiirenium

Irradiation of a 2-methvlthio-4-hydroxythiazolium hydroxide inner salt (12) leads to exchange of the carbon atoms located in the 2 and 4 positions, probably via a thiirenium ion (Scheme 13) (5). 

Certain mcso-ionic derivatives of thiazole (217) rearrange into thiazolone (219) under irradiation, a thiirenium intermediate (218) being postulated (Scheme 105) (495). 

With 2-methyl- and 2,4-dimethylthiazole, the methyl thiirenium ion (m/e 72) is obtained, which can easily lose a hydrogen radical to give the ml ell ion (confirmed by the metastable peak). This latter can rearrange by ring expansion to give the thietenyl cation whose structure was confirmed in certain spectra by the presence of a metastable peak corresponding to the decomposition of the m/e 71 ion to give the thioformyl cation m/e 45, probably by elimination of acetylene. 

As in the case of thiazole and the alkylthiazoles, cleavage of the thiazole ring takes place at the 1,2 and 3,4 bonds, confirmed by a metastable peak. The other important peaks result from fragmentation of thiirenium ion, in the case of 4- and 5-phenylthiazole and of the phenyl ring. These latter are generally present in the spectra of all comptmnds with benzene-ring substituents, they occur at m/e 77, 76, 75, 51, 50, 39 (124). The ion m/e 45 (HCS" ) is always present. 

Thiirenium ions formed as intermediates in the solvolysis of tran5-/3-thiovinyl sulfonates react with methanol to give product with retention of configuration (Scheme 75) (79MI50600). 

The formation of 2,3-di-f-butyl-l-methylthiirenium chloride from fran5-3-chloro-4-methylthio-2,2,5,5-tetramethyl-3-hexene is quantitative (by NMR) in liquid sulfur dioxide (Scheme 128) (82JOC590). Similar thiirenium ions are intermediates in the reactions of -thiovinyl derivatives (79MI50600). 

Thiiranium and thiirenium ions as reaction intermediates and building blocks in organic synthesis 97G177. 

A unimolecular ionization was shown to be the mechanism of solvolysis by means of rate studies, solvent effects, salt effects, and structural effects (179,180). The products of reaction consist of benzo [bjthiophen derivatives 209 or nucleophilic substitution products 210, depending upon the solvent system employed. By means of a series of elegant studies, Modena and co-workers have shown that the intermediate ion 208 can have either the open vinyl cation structure 208a or the cyclic thiirenium ion 208b, depending... 

The addition of organodichalcogenides to alkynes does not necessarily require the aid of transition metal catalysts. Indeed, the reaction proceeds via different mechanisms under various conditions (radical, In, CsOH,183 SnCl4,184 and phase-transfer catalysts185). Treatment of a mixture of (PhS)2 and terminal alkynes with GaCl3 affords (E)-products (E Z=>20 1).186 The reaction is assumed to involve a thiirenium ion as the intermediate (Scheme 38). 

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