Vinylic sulfoxides

Ethyl-4-methyl-l-(phenylsulfonyl)indole 4-Ethyl-7-methyl-l-phenylsulfonyl-l,5-dihydropyrano-[3,4-b]pyrrol-5-one phenyl vinyl sulfoxide 60 [3]... 

Phenyl vinyl sulfoxide is chiral Phenyl vinyl sulfone is achiral... 

Sulfoxides occur widely in small concentrations in plant and animal tissues, eg, aHyl vinyl sulfoxide [81898-53-5] in garlic oil and 2,2 -sulfinylbisethanol [3085-45-8] as fatty esters in the adrenal cortex (1,2). Homologous methyl sulfinyl alkyl isothiocyanates, which are represented by the formula CH3SO(CH2) NCS, where n = 3 [37791-20-1], 4 [4478-93-7], 5 [646-23-1], 8 [75272-81-0], 9 [39036-83-4], or 10 [39036-84-5], have been isolated from a number of mustard oils in which they occur as glucosides (3). Two methylsulfinyl amino acids have also been reported methionine sulfoxide [454-41-1] from cockroaches and the sulfoxide of i -methylcysteine, 3-(methylsulfinyl)alaiiine [4740-94-7]. The latter is the dominant sulfur-containing amino acid in turnips and may account in part for their characteristic odor (4). 

Verify, by making molecular models, that the bonds to sulfur are arranged in a trigonal pyramidal geometry in sulfoxides and in a tetrahedral geometry in sulfones. Is phenyl vinyl sulfoxide chiral What about phenyl vinyl sulfone ... 

To control the stereochemistry of 1,3-dipolar cycloaddidon reacdons, chiral auxiliaries are introduced into either the dipole-part or dipolarophile A recent monograph covers this topic extensively ° therefore, only typical examples are presented here. Alkenes employed in asymmetric 1,3-cycloaddidon can be divided into three main groups (1) chiral allyhc alcohols, f2 chiral amines, and Hi chiral vinyl sulfoxides or vinylphosphine oxides. 

As shown in Table 4, the same ratio of diastcreomeric sulfinylalkcnols was obtained from both (R)-(E)- and (/ )-(Z)-l-sulfinylalkenes (vinyl sulfoxides). This is explained by the fast cisjtrans isomerization of the organolithium intermediates in a strongly basic medium. Thus, EjZ mixtures of vinyl sulfoxides can be used without prior separation. 

The addition of a cyclic vinyl sulfoxide anion to aldehydes has been reported only once14. Interestingly, 2,3,4,5-tetrahydro-l//-thiepane S-oxide cannot be metalated by lithium diiso-propylamide in tetrahydrofuran at — 78 °C. At higher temperatures ( — 20° to 0°) a white polymeric precipitate is formed. This polymeric product is also formed when the sulfoxide is treated with butyllithium or. wr-butyllithium in tetrahydrofuran even at — 78 C. However, metalation can be accomplished with. sec-butyllithium using an excess of N,N,N, N -tetramcthylethylenediamine in tetrahydrofuran at —78 C. In this case, a pale yellow solution is formed immediately and upon addition of benzaldehydc instantaneous dccolorization occurs yielding a mixture of diastereomeric alcohols in 90% yield. 

G. H. Posner, Addition of Organometallic Reagents to Chiral Vinyl Sulfoxides in Asymmetric Synthesis. J. D. Morrison, Ed. Vol. 2, p. 225, Academic, New York 1983. 

An optically active sulfoxide may often be transformed into another optically active sulfoxide without racemization. This is often accomplished by formation of a new bond to the a-carbon atom, e.g. to the methyl carbon of methyl p-tolyl sulfoxide. To accomplish this, an a-metallated carbanion is first formed at low temperature after which this species may be treated with a large variety of electrophiles to give a structurally modified sulfoxide. Alternatively, nucleophilic reagents may be added to a homochiral vinylic sulfoxide. Structurally more complex compounds formed in these ways may be further modified in subsequent steps. Such transformations are the basis of many asymmetric syntheses and are discussed in the chapter by Posner and in earlier reviews7-11. 

The (formal) Michael addition of nucleophiles to thiirene oxides and dioxides (formally vinyl sulfoxides and sulfones). 

Crystallization to obtain the major diastereomer in pure form is possible in some cases. These hydrogen-bonded vinylic sulfoxides undergo asymmetric 2 + 4-cycloaddition reactions with 1,3-cyclopentadiene (see p. 845). 

An intramolecular version of enolate Michael addition to enantiomerically pure vinylic sulfoxides is represented by reaction of a cyclopentenone sulfoxide with dichloroketene (Scheme 5)90 this type of additive Pummerer rearrangement has been developed by Marino and coworkers91 into a highly effective way of constructing variously substituted lactones in very high enantiomeric purity (equation 43). 

The enantiomerically pure, doubly activated a, /j-olefinic sulfoxides 46-5095 98 undergo highly diastereoselective Diels-Alder cycloadditions with cyclopentadiene, and pyridyl vinylic sulfoxide 5199 reacts diastereoselectively with furan. It is noteworthy that olefins singly-activated by only a sulfinyl group are not effective partners in Diels-Alder cycloadditions, as we have found after many attempts and as has been reported recently98. 

Anionic (n-BuLi, n-BuMgBr) polymerization of enantiomerically pure tolyl vinyl sulfoxide occurs with asymmetric induction106. 

Keywords acetylenic sulfoxide, vinyl sulfoxide, acetylenic sulfinate, acetylenic sulfonate, 1-propene-1,3-sultone... 

Optically active vinyl sulfoxides 6 were also produced from the reaction of 1 (R=H) with(-)-(S)-menthyl sulfinate, via the intermediate formation with in-... 

Reactions of sulfoxides containing a- and /9-hydrogen atoms, for example n-dibutyl sulfoxide 1170, with trimethylsilyl iodide 17 in the presence of tertiary amines such as diisopropylethylamine (DIPEA) give, e.g., the vinylsulfide 1171 as an 1 1 E/Z mixture in 75% yield and HMDSO 7 [16] (Scheme 8.4). Analogously, the vinyl sulfoxide 1172 or the vinyl sulfoxide 1174 furnish the 1,3-dienyl sulfides 1173 and 1175 in 91 and 85% yield, respectively, and HMDSO 7 [16]. 

Vinyl sulfoxides containing an a-trimethylsilyl group, for example as 1197, rearrange on heating in benzene to give the vinyl sulfoxide 1198 in up to 19% yield, the acetylene 1199 in 37% yield, and the ketene-S,0-acetal 1200 in 32% yield [25] (Scheme 8.8). 

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