Thiolate ion

Thiol—Disulfide Interchange Reactions. The interchange between thiols and disulfides has been reviewed (50). This reaction is base-catalyzed. It involves the nucleophihc attack of a thiolate ion on a disulfide. This is shown in equations 35, 36, and 37. 

Many other examples are known of non-selective reactions of halo groups in pyridopyridazines with amines, alkoxides, sulfur nucleophiles such as hydrosulfide and thiolate ions, or thiourea, hydrazine(s), cyanide ion and dimethyl sulfoxide, or on catalytic reduction. 

Treatment of thiiranes with lithium aluminum hydride gives a thiolate ion formed by attack of hydride ion on the least hindered carbon atoms (76RCR25), The mechanism is 5n2, inversion occurring at the site of attack. Polymerization initiated by the thiolate ion is a side reaction and may even be the predominant reaction, e.g. with 2-phenoxymethylthiirane. Use of THF instead of ether as solvent is said to favor polymerization. Tetrahydroborates do not reduce the thiirane ring under mild conditions and can be used to reduce other functional groups in the presence of the episulfide. Sodium in ammonia reduces norbornene episulfide to the exo thiol. 

Treatment of a thiol with a base, such as NaH, gives the corresponding thiolate ion (RS-), which undergoes reaction with a primary or secondary alkyl halide to give a sulfide. The reaction occurs by an Sn2 mechanism, analogous to the Williamson synthesis of ethers (Section 18.2). Thiolate anions are among... 

The conversion of a thiolactone to a cyclic ether can also be used as a key step in the synthesis of functionalized, stereochemically complex oxacycles (see 64—>66, Scheme 13). Nucleophilic addition of the indicated higher order cuprate reagent to the C-S double bond in thiolactone 64 furnishes a tetrahedral thiolate ion which undergoes smooth conversion to didehydrooxepane 65 upon treatment with 1,4-diiodobutane and the non-nucleophilic base 1,2,2,6,6-pentamethylpiperidine (pempidine).27 Regio- and diastereoselective hydroboration of 65 then gives alcohol 66 in 89 % yield after oxidative workup. Versatile vinylstannanes can also be accessed from thiolactones.28 For example, treatment of bis(thiolactone) 67 with... 

The experiments with 2-(3-butenyloxy)benzenediazonium ions (10.55, Z = 0, n = 2, R=H) and benzenethiolate showed a significant shift of the product ratio in favor of the uncyclized product 10.57. They also indicated that the covalent adduct Ar — N2 — SC6H5 is formed as an intermediate, which then undergoes homolytic dissociation to produce the aryl radical (Scheme 10-83). Following the bimolecular addition of the aryl radical to a thiolate ion (Scheme 10-84), the chain propagation reaction (Scheme 10-85) yielding the arylphenylsulfide is in competition with an alternative route leading to the uncyclized product 10.57. 

Thioethers (sulfides) can be prepared by treatment of alkyl halides with salts of thiols (thiolate ions). The R group may be alkyl or aryl and organolithium bases can be used to deprotonate the thiol. As in 10-37, RX cannot be a tertiary halide, and sulfuric and sulfonic esters can be used instead of halides. As in the Williamson... 

Reaction between alkyl halides and thiolate ions or Na2S... 

Reaction between aryl halides and thiolate ions... 

The reaction mechanism probably simply involves one-equivalent oxidation of thiolate ion. 

Cyanide, in vivo, should react vfith auranofin. When the stoichiometry of cyanide is less than 1 1, the thiolate ion is displaced ... 

Homoleptic silver(I) thiolates AgSR have been known and used for a long time,957,958 but until recently with little definitive information about their structures. They are insoluble or slightly soluble, yielding unreliable high molecular weights in solution, indicative of nonmolecular crystal structures. These compounds dissolve due to the presence of thiolate ions. 

Simple nitroalkanes such as nitroethane, 1-nitropropane, or 2-nitropropane are generally bad electrophiles for the SN2 reactions.14 In contrast, nitro groups at allylic positions are readily displaced by thiolate ions (Eq. 7.13)15 or lithium dialkylcuprates (Eq. 7.14).16... 

The photoinduced reactions of aryl halides with the thiourea anion afford arene thiolate ions in DMSO. These species can be used without isolation for... 

The conversion (19) of thiols to disulphides coupled with reduction of flavin (vitamin B2 family) is a topic of import in connection with coenzyme reactivity in flavoenzymes. Since flavin oxidation of thiols involves nucleophilic attack of thiolate ion in the rate-determining step (Loechler and Hollocher, 1975 Yokoe and Bruice, 1975), this biologically important reaction would be markedly affected by hydrophobic environments. 

It was already mentioned [reactions (8) and (9) and the associated text, p. 94] that the first situation in which a radical ion of a spin trap was suggested to be involved (Crozet et al., 1975) was the reaction between an alkyl iodide and a thiolate ion in the presence of TBN [2], This compound is reduced reversibly at -1.25 V, and with °(RS /RS ) around 0.2 V reaction (8) is endergonic by 1.4 eV, not a favourable precondition for an ET reaction. Therefore, it is likely that some other mechanism is responsible for the observations made. 

TABLE 3. Second-order rate constants for the reaction of alkyl nitrites with the thiolate ions derived from three thiols in water at 25 °C... 

It is mysterious to me why thiolates look so good in organic chemistry in solution. I think that is something we have to understand better, but it appears not to be an intrinsic property of thiolate ions. Thiolates will not displace each other, they are not good leaving groups, and so on, in the gas phase. Their reactivity is exactly what one would predict. 

Thiophenyl acetates (366 R = Me) and propionates (366 R = Et) react with electrogenerated polysulflde ions S3 in DMF to yield thiocarboxylate ions, thiolate ions, and phenyl tetrasulfanide (367), the last deriving from the reaction of thiolate ions with sulfur (Scheme 48). Smdies of the aminolysis by a set of substimted anilines of Y-aryl dithio-2-thiophenates (368 X = S) and dithio-2-furoates (368 X = O) in acetonitrile have shown that the rate-determining step in these reactions is the departure of the thiophenolate ion from the zwitterionic tetrahedral intermediate T= = (Scheme 49). Experiments with deuteriated anilines yielded k i/IcQ values of 1.7-1.9,... 

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