Thiol coupling reaction

Fig. 8 Synthesis of monocyclic (one disulfide linkage) and linear multiblock polymers through thiol-thiol coupling reactions...

Scales, C.W. Convertine, A.J. McCormick, C.L. Fluorescent labeling of RAFT-generated poly(N-isopropylacrylamide) via a facile maleimide-thiol coupling reaction. Biomacromolecules 2006, 7 (5),... 

Gilbert and coworkers18 were able to detect ESR spectra of sulfinyl radicals together with other sulfur-centered radicals during the oxidation of disulfides and thiols with a titanium(III)-peroxide couple reaction mechanisms involving sulfenic acids as intermediates have been discussed. 

Microwave and fluorous technologies have been combined in the solution phase parallel synthesis of 3-aminoimidazo[l,2-a]pyridines and -pyrazines [63]. The three-component condensation of a perfluorooctane-sulfonyl (Rfs = CgFiy) substituted benzaldehyde by microwave irradiation in a single-mode instrument at 150 °C for 10 min in CH2CI2 - MeOH in the presence of Sc(OTf)3 gave the imidazo-annulated heterocycles that could be purified by fluorous solid phase extraction (Scheme 9). Subsequent Pd-catalyzed cross-coupling reactions of the fluorous sulfonates with arylboronic acids or thiols gave biaryls or aryl sulfides, respectively, albeit it in relatively low yields. 

The progress on S-C bond activation, which covers the reduction of a C-S bond to a C-H bond, cross coupling reaction of sulfides with main group organometaUic nucleophiles, ring opening reactions of thietanes and thiiranes, and desulfurization of thiols, sulfides, and thiophenes has already been reviewed elsewhere [6-10], and... 

A reverse cross-coupling reactions mediated by palladium was used to develop a colorimetric sensitive chemodosimeter for the detection of trace palladium (II) salts [93]. The decolorization of 4 is produced by a nucleophilic attack of ethanethiol in basic DMSO solutions. Palladium detection is done via thiol scavenging from the 4-ethanethiol complex leading to a color turn-on of the parent squaraine. Naked-eye detection of Pd(NC>3)2 is as sensitive as 0.5 ppm in solution, and the instrument-based detection can go as low as 0.1 ppm. 

It is supposed that the nickel enolate intermediate 157 reacts with electrophiles rather than with protons. The successful use of trimethylsilyl-sub-stituted amines (Scheme 57) permits a new carbon-carbon bond to be formed between 157 and electrophiles such as benzaldehyde and ethyl acrylate. The adduct 158 is obtained stereoselectively only by mixing nickel tetracarbonyl, the gem-dibromocyclopropane 150, dimethyl (trimethylsilyl) amine, and an electrophile [82]. gem-Functionalization on a cyclopropane ring carbon atom is attained in this four-component coupling reaction. Phenyl trimethyl silylsulfide serves as an excellent nucleophile to yield the thiol ester, which is in sharp contrast to the formation of a complicated product mixture starting from thiols instead of the silylsulfide [81]. (Scheme 58)... 

An alternative approach is the cleavage of a UV-active protecting group from the resin, such as the widely used Fmoc Test. The quantitation of the 9-fluorenyl-methyloxycarbonyl (Fmoc) protecting group for amines is used in SPPS as an indirect method to determine the extent of a peptide coupling reaction. Similar approaches have also been recently reported for the quantitation of supported thiols [151, 154] and have also been the subject of an excellent review [148]. 

The reaction of thiyl radicals with silicon hydrides (Reaction 3.18) is the key step of the so called polarity-reversal catalysis in the radical-chain reduction of alkyl halides as well as in the hydrosilylation of olefins using silane-thiol couple (see Sections 4.5 and 5.1) [33]. The reaction is strongly endothermic and reversible (Reaction —3.18). 

The cross-coupling reaction proceeds through the initial oxidation of the more reactive thiol, followed by the gradual thiolysis of the formed disulphide by the less reactive thiol. The method is therefore useful for the cross-coupling of the reactive aryl and n-alkyl thiols with the less reactive f-alkylthiols. 

To avoid unwanted coupling reactions a protecting group is substituted on the amino function of the acid that is to act as the acylating agent. Furthermore, all of the amino, hydroxyl, and thiol functions that may be acylated to give undesired products usually must be protected. For instance, to synthesize... 

Coupling Reaction of Amino Acids and Peptides with Thiols... 

For Pd-catalyzed cross-coupling reactions the organopalladium complex is generated from an organic electrophile RX and a Pd(0) complex in the presence of a carbon nucleophile. Not only organic halides but also sulfonium salts [38], iodonium salts [39], diazonium salts [40], or thiol esters (to yield acylpalladium complexes) [41] can be used as electrophiles. With allylic electrophiles (allyl halides, esters, or carbonates, or strained allylic ethers and related compounds) Pd-i73-jt-allyl complexes are formed these react as soft, electrophilic allylating reagents. 

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