Thiols hydrides

For the Ru system the thiol hydride could not be detected, while for the Rh system and also [IrH2(HS(CH2)3SH)(PCy3)2]+(which similarly catalyzes D2/H + exchange (79)), the H2 complex could not be seen but is a transient. A related system, Ni(NHP Pr3)(S3) clearly shows that heterolysis of D2 can also occur at nickel sites, which may be relevant to H2 activation in [FeNi] hydrogenases (78). 

In search of model systems for iron hydrogenases, Sellmann et al. (67) investigated the interaction of I e(hdt)2 2 with H+, H2, and H . Formation of H2 was observed in the reaction with H+. The reaction mechanism was proposed to follow a step-wise protonation, forming a thiol-hydride complex and H2 is proposed to form via heterolytic elimination from the metal hydride species (Scheme 6). Theoretical calculations suggest that concerted H2 elimination from a dithiol species is thermally forbidden (67). 

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. 

The nucleophilic displacement reactions with azide, primary amines, thiols and carboxylatc salts arc reported to be highly efficient giving high (>95%) yields of the displacement product (Table 9.25). The latter two reactions are carried out in the presence of a base (DBU, DABCO). Radical-induced reduction with tin hydrides is quantitative. The displacement reaction with phenolates,61j phosphines,6M and potassium phthalimide608 gives elimination of HBr as a side reaction. 

Durch Einsatz elektrophiler Hydride (Diboran, Natriumboranat/Aluminiumchlorid) wird die Hydrogenolyse der C-O-Bindung erleichtert, so daB sich in schneller Reaktion hauptsachlich das Thiol isolieren laGt3. 

Thiocarbonsaure-S-ester werden durch Hydride entweder zu Sulfanen oder zu einem Gemisch aus Thiol und Alkohol reduziert. Wahrend Natriumboranat nur in gewissen... 

Lithium aluminum hydride reduces most sulfur compounds with cleavage of the C—S bond, including thiols. " Thioesters can be reduced with Ni2B (from NiBr2/... 

A Ni-bound H H species in the Ni-C form has been considered to be unlikely based on the very small hyperfine splitting observed due to exchangeable 78). It has been argued, however, that the observed small values could arise from an equatorially bound Ni hydride (79). It has also been postulated that the photolyzed hydrogen species contained in the Ni-C state is the proton of a thiol group bound to the Ni ion 80). 

Although the oxoacids of selenium and sulfur have comparable acid strengths (pITai 2.6 vs. p fa 1-9, respectively, for the quadrivalent species pA a 3 for both the hexavalent species), the hydride H2Se is much more acidic than H2S (pATai 3.9 vs. 7.0). Thus, while thiols such as cysteine are mainly protonated at physiological pH, selenols such as selenocysteine are predominantly dissociated under the same conditions. 

A thio-substituted, quaternary ammonium salt can be synthesized by the Michael addition of an alkyl thiol to acrylamide in the presence of benzyl trimethyl ammonium hydroxide as a catalyst [793-795]. The reaction leads to the crystallization of the adducts in essentially quantitative yield. Reduction of the amides by lithium aluminum hydride in tetrahydrofuran solution produces the desired amines, which are converted to desired halide by reaction of the methyl iodide with the amines. The inhibitor is useful in controlling corrosion such as that caused by CO2 and H2S. 

However, lithinm aluminum hydride or zinc metal and HCl (5) are required as reducing agents to reduce the thiocyanate to the thiol. These reducing agents are stoichiometric reagents and aren t environmentally acceptable at this time because of their hazardous properties and waste disposal problems on a large manufacturing scale. 

The starting material is always the chalcogenol and, consequently, is more used for thiols than selenols and tellurols. There are several types of reactions depending if the starting materials are metal hydrides (hydrogen elimination), complexes with M C (alkane elimination), M-N (transamination), or M-O (hydrolysis) bonds. 

TABLE 12. Examples for the trapping of allyl radicals with thiols and tin hydrides... 

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