Thioethers hydrolysis

Many different pathways, mechanisms, and enzymes are associated with activation. These include dehalogenation, AT-nitrosation of secondary amines, epoxidation, conversion of phosphothionates to phosphate, metabolism of phen-oxyalkanoic acids, oxidation of thioethers, hydrolysis of esters and peroxides. The following is a summary. 

Figure 68 Ether, thioether hydrolysis under acidic conditions.

Thioether hydrolysis is observed for the API cefamandole nafate under slightly acidic, slightly basic and aqueous photolysis conditions to the resulting thiol and alcohol (Fig. 71) (110). 

Additional examples of thioether hydrolysis in solution include the API moxalactam disodium to form thiotetrazole (111). Thioethers are susceptible to oxidation to sulfoxides and sulfones (Fig. 72). 

AgN03, EtOH, Pyr, 90°, 1.5 h H2S, 47% yield. An 5-triphenylmethyl thioether can be selectively cleaved in the presence of an 5-diphenylmethyl thioether by acidic hydrolysis or by heavy-metal ions. As a result of the structure of the substrate, the relative yields of cleavage by AgN03 and Hg(OAc)2 can be reversed. 

Silyl-derived protective groups are also used to mask the thiol function. A complete compilation is not given here since silyl derivatives are described in the section on alcohol protection. The formation and cleavage of silyl thioethers proceed analogously to simple alcohols. The Si—S bond is weaker than the Si—O bond, and therefore sulfur derivatives are more susceptible to hydrolysis. For the most part silyl ethers are rarely used to protect the thiol function because of their instability. Silyl ethers have been used for in situ protection of the — SH group during amide formation. ... 

Caiboo-oxygen bonds can be made using the synthetically uninteresting conversion of RMgX into ROH (shown as the firat reacdoo listed above) direct acid hydrolysis of the petxuto compound ROOMgX yields the hydroperoxide ROOM. Caibon-sulfiir bonds can be constructed using Ss to make thiols or thioethers, and similar reacdons are known for Se and Te ... 

The usual oxidizing agents transfer oxygen (or halogens and related species with subsequent hydrolysis) stepwise to the sulfur of thioethers Rates of step A compared with those of step B are faster with electrophilic oxidation agents (peroxy acids) inversely, rates of step B compared with those of step A are faster with nucleophilic oxidation agents (peroxy anions)339-341. 

Several extraction techniques have also been described that use enzymatic or chemical reactions to improve extraction efficiency. A technique that has been used to increase the overall recovery of the marker residue is enzymatic hydrolysis to convert specific phase II metabolites (glucuronides or sulfates) back into the parent residue. Cooper etal used a glucuronidase to increase 10-fold the concentration of chloramphenicol residues in incurred tissue. As an example of a chemical reaction, Moghaddam et al. used Raney nickel to reduce thioether bonds between benomyl and polar cellular components, and as a result achieved a substantially improved recovery over conventional solvent extraction. In choosing to use either of these approaches, thorough characterization of the metabolism in the tissue sample must be available. 

Reactivity Hydrolysis products Hydrochloric acid and thioglycols or thioethers may be produced. 

The iodoacetyl group of both isomers reacts with sulfhydryls under slightly alkaline conditions to yield stable thioether linkages (Figure 9.7). They do not react with unreduced disulfides in cystine residues or with oxidized glutathione (Gorman et al., 1987). The thioether bonds will be hydrolyzed under conditions necessary for complete protein hydrolysis prior to amino acid analysis. 

The readily available benzotriazolyl derivative of dimethyl sulfide, compound 821, can be alkylated on a-carbon in a stepwise manner to provide (a,a-disubstituted)alkyl thioethers 823 (Scheme 131). Hydrolysis of these thioethers under mild conditions (5% H2S04 at room temperature) furnishes ketones 824 in high yields. The anion derived from mono substituted (benzotriazol-l-yl)methyl thioether 822 adds to butyl acrylate to give intermediate 826 that can be hydrolyzed to y-ketoester 825. In another example of reactivity of a-(benzotriazol-l-yl)alkyl thioethers, treatment of thioether 822 with BunLi followed by phenyl isocyanate converts it into a-ketoanilide 828, via intermediate adduct 827 <1998JOC2110>. 

Treatment of a-(benzotriazol-l-yl)alkyl thioethers 831 with ZnBr2 weakens the bond with benzotriazole, and the obtained complex 832 may partially dissociate to thionium cation 835 that can be trapped by even mild nucleophiles. Thus, trimethylsilyl cyanide added to the reaction mixture causes substitution of the benzotriazole moiety by the CN group to give a-(phenylthio)carbonitrile 834. In a similar manner, treatment with allylsilane leads to y,S-unsaturated thioether 833. Addition of species 835 to the double bond of a trimethylsilyl ot-arylvinyl ether followed by hydrolysis of the silyloxy group furnishes (i-(phenylthio)alkyl aryl ketones 836 (Scheme 132) <1996TL6631>. 

As far as propargyl thioethers are concerned, the substrates in this section follow all the principles discussed for propargyl ethers and propargylamines in the two preceding sections. For alkyl propargyl thioethers typical bases used are sodium amide in liquid ammonia, alcoholate or alkali metal hydroxide [178, 186-189, 191, 287-291], and again some derivatives of carbohydrates have been used successfully [292, 293], If an ester group is also present in the molecule, the reaction can be accompanied by a hydrolysis to the carboxylate [294]. 

The protonation of 3-thio methyl-l-methoxy-l,2-allenes 90 affords 3-methylthio-enals 91 [43]. Hydrolysis can, on the other hand, be directed to the thioether moiety with HgCl2-MeOH leading to l,l-dimethoxy-3-ketones 92 [43],... 

Three different pathways are associated with the metabolism of disulfoton (I) oxidation of the thioether sulfur to produce sulfoxides and sulfones (2) oxidation of the thiono sulfur to produce the oxygen analogs and (3) hydrolysis of the P-S-C linkage to produce the corresponding phosphorothionate or phosphate (WHO 1976) (see Figure 2-3). These pathways have been elucidated from data obtained in humans exposed to disulfoton and from in vivo and in vitro metabolism studies in rats and mice. 

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