Thioacetals and ketals

Desulfonylation Lithium-Ammonia, 158 Lithium triethylborohydride, 168 Magnesium-Methanol, 170 Sodium dithionite, 281 Sodium naphthalenide, 294 Desulfurization Lithium aluminum hydride-Bis(cyclopentadienyl)nickel, 158 Lithium l-(dimethylamino)naph-thalenide, 165 Lithium-Ethylamine, 158 Dethioacetalization (see Hydrolysis of thioacetals and -ketals)... 

Potassium hydroxide, 258 Trimethylsilyl chlorochromate, 327 of carbon-carbon double bonds substituted by heteroatoms m-Chloroperbenzoic acid, 76 of oximes to carbonyl compounds Lithium aluminum hydride-Hexa-methylphosphoric triamide, 159 Titanium(III) chloride-Diisobutylalu-minum hydride, 303 Trimethylsilyl chlorochromate, 327 of protected alcohols Chlorodimethylthexylsilane, 74 Formic acid, 137 p-Methoxyphenol, 181 of thioacetals and -ketals Methoxy(phenylthio)trimethyl-silylmethane, 182... 

Thioacetals and ketals Bromodimethylborane, 47 Thionyl chloride-Silica, 297 Thioaldehydes and ketones 2,4-Bis(4-methoxyphenyl)-1,3-dithia-2,4-diphosphetane-2,4-disulfide, 38 Tetrabutylammonium fluoride, 286 Thiols... 

Thioacetals and -ketals. A1C13 is an effective catalyst for the condensation of aldehydes and ketones with thiols or dithiols. The reaction of thiols with carbonyl groups with an a-proton results in low yields but the reaction with dithiols proceeds in high yield.8... 

Dithianes, thioacetals and -ketals, enol thiol ethers. This clay is a useful catalyst for reactions of ketones with thiols. The condensations are usually conducted in refluxing toluene with a Dean-Stark trap for water.1... 

Thioacetalizfltion.23 Aldehydes and ketones react with alkylthiols and alkanedithiols in the presence of catalytic amounts of TiCl4 in CHC13 at 28° to form thioacetals and -ketals in >90% yield. The reaction is satisfactory even with readily enolizable carbonyl compounds. 

Thioacetals and ketals are important protecting groups used in organic manipulations. The regeneration of carbonyl compounds by cleavage of acid and base-stable thioacetals and thioketals is a challenging task. Cleavage of thioacetals normally requires use of toxic heavy metals such as Ti +, Hg, Ag, Tl +, or uncom-... 

Because carbohydrates are so frequently used as substrates in kinetic studies of enzymes and metabolic pathways, we refer the reader to the following topics in Ro-byt s excellent account of chemical reactions used to modify carbohydrates formation of carbohydrate esters, pp. 77-81 sulfonic acid esters, pp. 81-83 ethers [methyl, p. 83 trityl, pp. 83-84 benzyl, pp. 84-85 trialkyl silyl, p. 85] acetals and ketals, pp. 85-92 modifications at C-1 [reduction of aldehydes and ketones, pp. 92-93 reduction of thioacetals, p. 93 oxidation, pp. 93-94 chain elongation, pp. 94-98 chain length reduction, pp. 98-99 substitution at the reducing carbon atom, pp. 99-103 formation of gycosides, pp. 103-105 formation of glycosidic linkages between monosaccharide residues, 105-108] modifications at C-2, pp. 108-113 modifications at C-3, pp. 113-120 modifications at C-4, pp. 121-124 modifications at C-5, pp. 125-128 modifications at C-6 in hexopy-ranoses, pp. 128-134. 

Thioacetal and thioketal carbon shieldings (45-65 ppm) [328, 329] also reflect the heavy atom influence when compared with acetal and ketal carbon shifts (100 + 5 ppm). 

Keto sulfides.1 In the presence of trityl tetrafluoroborate, silyl enol ethers react with thioacetals or -ketals to give 7-keto sulfides in 75-95% yield (equation I). The same products can be obtained directly from ketones and thioacetals by in... 

Clayfen (1.13 g, 1.2 mmol of iron(III) nitrate) is thoroughly mixed with neat thioacetal lb (0.227 g, 1 mmol) in the solid state. The material is transferred in a test tube and placed in an alumina bath inside the microwave oven and irradiated (40 s). Upon completion of the reaction, monitored on TLC (hexane-EtOAc, 8 2, v/v), the product was extracted into ethylene chloride. The resulting solution is passed through a small bed of neutral alumina. Evaporation of the solvent delivers pure p-nitrobenzaldehyde 2b in 97% yield. In the case of cyclic thio acetals and ketals, the liberated dithiols bind to the clay surface rather tightly and a simple washing of the clayfen affords clean products. 

Thioacetals and thioketals are the sulphur equivalents of acetals and ketals and are also prepared under acid conditions (Following fig.). These can also be used to protect aldehydes and ketones, but the hydrolysis of these groups is more difficult. Moreover, the thioacetals and thioketals can be removed by reduction and this provides a method of reducing aldehydes and ketones. 

Carbonyl functions often are protected as thioacetals, because these derivatives are stable to acids and bases. Dithio-acetals and -ketals generally are prepared by reaction of the carbonyl compound with a thiol in the presence of an acid catalyst. This transformation has been used in carbohydrate chemistry for a long time to lock aldoses in their acyclic forms (see equation 26). In recent years, this blocking principle for carbohydrates has been exploited in several chiral pool syntheses. Several other methods for... 

Alternatively, the thioacetal can be alkylated once more to give a thioketal. Hydrolysis of the thioketal gives a ketone. (Acetals and ketals are discussed in more detail in Section 18-18.)... 

This transformation includes formation of cyclic acetals and ketals and, if R SH is used, thioacetals or thioketals. The R and R groups can be alkyl, hydrogen, or aryl. Imines are available from primary amines and enamines from secondary amines. Similarly, R and R can be hydrogen, alkyl, or aryl R is usually allyl or aryl. 

The dimethylsulphide adduct of thexylchloroborane reduces aliphatic carboxylic acids to aldehydes in 93-99% yields at 25 C. Investigations of the relative merits of dimethyl and diphenyl-bromoborane as reagents lor the cleavage of acetals and ketals have been reported as has a new method for the regioselective introduction of the oxycarbonyl or thioacetal functionalities into alkenes. ... 

Thiols are the sulfur analogs of alcohols (Section 15.11). The sulfur atom of a thiol is a better nucleophile than the oxygen atom of an alcohol. Thus, thiols react with aldehydes or ketones to form thioacetals or thioketals by a mechanism similar to that described for acetals and ketals. These sulfur derivatives form in high yield because the equdibrium constant for thioacetal formation is much greater than that for acetal formation. We use Lewis acids such as BFj or ZnCl2 rather than protic acids to catalyze the formation of the thioacetal. Both 1,2-ethanedithiol and 1,3-propanedithiol are used to form cyclic thioacetals and thioketals. 

These problems were circumvented by protecting the C(4),C(5) diol prior to Wittig olefination step (Figure 3). Thus, treatment of 10b (a mixture of pyranose and furanose anomers prepared by hydrolysis of 8 with aqueous trifluoroacetic acid) with excess EtSH and concentrated HCI (as solvent) at provided dithioacetal 9 in 50% yield, along with 25% of a mixture of thiopyranosides and thiofuranosides that was recycled to 10b in high yield by treatment with HgCIa and CaCOa in aqueous CH3CN. Finally, the diol unit was protected as a cyclohexylidene ketal, and then the thioacetal was hydrolyzed under oxidative conditions to arrive at the key aldehyde intermediate 3. 

This reaction is widely utilised in organic synthesis, when carbonyl groups may be protected as the thioacetals or thioketals. Unlike acetals or ketals, the thio compounds do not undergo acid catalysed hydration, and may be used in acidic reaction conditions. The metal-directed hydrolysis is rationalised in terms of the soft-soft interaction of the sulfur with the metal cation, in contrast to the hard-soft interaction with a proton. Hydrolysis is readily achieved on treatment with aqueous mercury(n) or silver(i) salts. Once again, the... 

A cyclopropanone thioacetal has also been observed to undergo Ci—C2 cleavage under the normal conditions for thioacetal solvolyses.110> Thus, the esters 135 a and 135 b are formed when the 1,3-dithiopropane ketal of 7,7-norcarane is reacted with mercuric chloride. In this case, HgCl+ acts as an electrophile and attacks the three-membered ring. However, under similar conditions, the cyclopropanone methyl thioketal 136 forms the mixed ketal 137. While the authors consider this result to represent an unusual example of a nucleophilic displacement at a cyclopropyl carbon atom 110), the reaction mechanism may involve the inter-... 

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