Thiophene oxides reactions

The cycloaddition reactions of thiophene oxides and dioxides (290 and 291280,281) have already been discussed (Section V.A). 

Oxidation of thiophene and its derivatives was studied using hydrogen peroxide (H2O2), t-butyl-hydroperoxide and Ti-Beta redox molecular sieve as selective oxidation catalysts. A new reaction pathway was discovered and investigated using C-13 NMR, GC, GC-MS, HPLC, ion chromatography, and XANES. The thiophene oxidized to thiophene-sesquioxide [3a,4,7,7a-tetrahydro-4,7-epithiobenzo[b]-thiophene 1,1.8-trioxide] and the sesquioxide oxidized mostly to sulfate. 2-Methyl-thiophene and 2,5 dimethylthiophene also oxidized to sulfate and sulfone products. The Benzothiophene oxidation product was sulfone. This proposed new reaction pathway is different from prior literature, which reported the formation of thiophene 1,1-dioxide (sulfone ) as a stable oxidation product... 

Oxidation of these model sulfur compounds was studied without solvent to investigate the chemical structure of the products using S K-edge XANES. A solvent free tri-phase (organic/ H202aq./catalyst) was used under the described conditions. Figure 1 shows the XANES spectra from the organic and aqueous phases as well as reference materials. The thiophene oxidized to thiophene-sesquioxide [3a,4,7,7a-tetrahydro-4,7-epithiobenzo[b]-thiophene 1,1.8-trioxide ] first.. The sesquioxide solid precipitated from the solvent free reaction mixture and was identified by NMR, IR and C,H,S elemental analytical. The sesquioxide oxidized to sulfate. 2-MT and 2,5 DMT also oxidized to... 

The oxidation of thiophene and its derivatives with H202 was studied using a Ti-Beta molecular sieve. The oxidation product is very dependent from the aromaticity of model compounds. The thiophene oxidation product was mostly sulfates and the benzothiophene oxidation product was benzothiophene sulfone. Oxidation of mono and di-alkyl thiophenes also produced sulfates and sulfones. The diffusivity and aromaticity of the relevant sulfur compounds, intermediates and stable product, as well as the proposed new mechanism of oxidation will be discussed. This proposed new reaction pathway is different from current literature, which reports the formation of sulfones as a stable oxidation product. 

The observed catalytic effect of the crown ether appears to be dependent on the nucleophile employed in both polymerization and corresponding model reactions. Not surprisingly, it appears that the stronger the nucleophile employed, the smaller the catalytic influence of the crown ether. For example, with potassium thiophen-oxide yields of polymer or model products were almost quantitative with or without catalyst. By contrast, the reaction of PFB with potassium phthalimide, a considerably weaker nucleophile, affords 6 in 50% with catalyst and in 2-3% without catalyst under identical conditions. However, it may be that this qualitative difference in rates is, in fact, an artifact of different solubilities of the crown complexed nucleophiles in the organic liquid phase. A careful kinetic study of nucleophilicity in catalyzed versus non-catalyzed reactions study is presently underway. 

Sato and coworkers reported recently an interesting oxidation reaction of 1,4-dihydro-l,4-diphenyl-2,3-benzodithiin . When compound 38 was treated with m-CPBA in CH2CI2, ring contraction to l,3-diphenylbenzo[c]thiophene 39 was observed. With H2O2 in CH3COOH, the reaction afforded l,3-dihydro-l,3-diphenylbenzo[c]thiophene 40, while with Oxone a highly regioselective oxidized product, i.e. l,4-dihydro-l,4-diphenyl-2,3-benzodithiin 2,2-dioxide 41, was formed (equation 58). 

The organization of material in this chapter follows closely that set down in Chapter 3.02. The only points of departure are in the inclusion of a small section on photosubstitution (3.14.2.11) and in the bifurcation of the section on the oxides of thiophene the reactions of thiophene 1-oxides are described in Section 3.14.4.1 and those of thiophene 1,1-dioxides in Section 3.14.4.2. 

Thiophene, 2-hydroxy-5-methyl-synthesis, 4, 926 Thiophene, iodo-Grignard reagents, 4, 79, 831 photolysis, 4, 832 reactions, 4, 932 with phenyllithium, 4, 831 synthesis, 4, 835, 934 Ullmann coupling reactions, 4, 837 Thiophene, 2-isopropyl-3-methyl-synthesis, 4, 901 Thiophene, mercapto-reactions, 4, 78 stability, 4, 825 synthesis, 4, 80, 835, 930-931 tautomerism, 4, 38, 727 Thiophene, 2-mercapto-5-methylthio-synthesis, 4, 872 Thiophene, 2-methoxy-chloromethylation, 4, 759 Thiophene, 3-methoxy-chloromethylation, 4, 759 Thiophene, 5-methoxy-2,4-dinitro-Meisenheimer complexes, 4, 815 Thiophene, 2-methoxy-5-methyl-Vilsmeier formylation, 4, 759-760 Thiophene, 2-methoxy-3-nitro-reactions, 4, 827 Thiophene, 2-methyl-bromination, 4, 799-800 conformation, 4, 32 HNMR, 4, 730 metallation, 4, 773 synthesis, 4, 885, 887 trifluoroacetylation, 4, 751 Thiophene, 3-methyl-bromination, 4, 799-800 conformation, 4, 32 H NMR, 4, 730 metallation, 4, 60 oxidation, 4, 800... 

In an attempt to minimize overoxidation we explored the oxidation system m-chloroperbenzoic acid/NaHCC /CE C (34) with three thiophenes and three polyaromatic hydrocarbons. The results are summarized in Table II, where it is seen that the thiophenes are converted to their sulfones after only 30 minutes reaction time and the polyaromatic hydrocarbons are either unaffected by the oxidation or are oxidized much more slowly. The sulfones of the thiophenes listed in Table II are not oxidized further under these conditions. The thiophene content of Syncrude maltene was found to be 6.4% by the present method while the recovery was only 4.2% using the method of Willey et al. (25). Increasing the time of the oxidation reaction in the present procedure from 20 to 60 minutes had only a minor ( 10%) effect on the yield of isolated thiophenes. 

Chloro-3-methylpyrazine undergoes the expected reactions with aniline, methylaniline, sodium phenoxide, and sodium thiophen-oxide.304 Normal products of substitution are also obtained with piperidine and other heterocyclic amines such as pyrrolidine.305 However, when 2-chloro-3-methylpyrazine (98) is treated with sodamide in liquid ammonia 2-chloro-3-(3 -methyl-2 -pyrazylmethyl)-pyrazine (99) is produced as indicated (Scheme 29) in 70% yield.304... 

This electrocyclization leading to a 1,6-fused cyclohexadiene also takes place with polyenes. A photochemical example from the vitamin A field is exemplified by the conrotatory phot clization of the (7Z)-isomer (IW) of retinal (185) to the bicyclic derivative (187). The photocyclization procedure has also been used in the aromatic series. - Thus the photocyclization-oxidation reaction of l-phenyl-4-(2 -thienyl)-1,3-butadiene (188) gave 4-phenylbenzo[b]thiophene (189). Similarly, the 3 -thienyl analogue (190) afforded 7-phenylbenzo[b]thiophene (191), the reaction exhibiting high selectivity for cyclization to the logically more reactive thiophene nucleus. ... 

Eisch et al. (24) performed a mechanistic study of the desulfurization of dibenzothiophene by a nickel(0)-bipyridyl complex and reported that a radical anion of the thiophene nucleus was formed and underwent C-S bond cleavage into S and an aromatic radical. In addition, they suggested that the oxidative reaction of the nickel(0)-bipyridyl complex toward dibenzothiophene had the characteristics of stepwise electron transfer rather than nucleophilic attack. However, no correlations occurred between the desulfurization rate and the reaction indexes of Fr(E), Fr(N), and Fr(R), as shown in Table II. The results suggested no evidence for either electron transfer or nucleophilic attack in this study. Moreover, the radical reaction was not... 

Thiophene prefers reactions with electrophilic reagents. Additions and ring-opening reactions are less important than with furan, and substitution reactions are dominant. Some additional reactions, such as oxidation and desulfurization, are due to the presence of sulfur and are thus confined to thiophenes. 

Two years later, Marko et al. reported an improved catalytic system which only required 0.25 equivalent of potassium carbonate instead of 2 equivalents (89). The oxidation reaction described above is dramatically influenced by the nature of the solvent. Thus, if the reaction was performed in fluorobenzene, total conversion of undecan-2-ol to undecan-2-one could be reached with 0.25 equivalent K2CO3, whereas 2 equivalents of base were necessary in toluene to convert 90% of this secondary aliphatic alcohol (Table VI). These optimized conditions were applied to a variety of functionalized alcohols and the results are reported in Table VII. The catalyst tolerates both sulphur and nitrogen substituents on the substrate. Indeed, (thiophen-2-yl)methanol, N-protected (S)-valinol or (S)-prolinol could be oxidized to the corresponding aldehydes with very good yields. In addition, no racemization was detected for the two P-amino alcohols as well as for (2S,5i )-2-isopropyl-5-methylcyclohexanol. The hindered endo- and exo-borneol are both converted to camphor with similar reaction rates, despite their distinctly different steric properties. 

Indeed, a variety of heterocyclic compounds, such as thiophenes, dithiophenes, pyrroles, indoles, or carbazoles can be involved as carbon-centered nucleophiles in these reactions to modify the pyrimidine ring (Scheme 31) [120-122]. For instance, it has been shown that 5-bromopyrimidine reacts with dithiophene into the corresponding 5-substituted pyrimidine due to palladium-catalyzed aryl-aryl C-C cross-coupling reaction. On the other hand, 5-bromo-4-dithiophenyl-substituted pyrimidine was prepared from the same starting material through the SH (addition-oxidation) reaction catalyzed by a Lewis acid in the presence of potassium... 

Thiophene and its derivatives can undergo both chemical and electrochemical oxidation to produce PTs [12,13]. The electrochemical synthesis of PTis more difficult as the oxidation potential of thiophene monomer is relatively high compared to that of other monomers such as pyrrole or aniline. Thus, strong oxidants are required for the polymerization of thiophene. The reaction mechanism is similar to PPy synthesis. 

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