DEHYDROCHLORINATION OF α-CHLORO SULFONES WITH KOH-T-BUOH: KINETIC VS EQUILIBRIUM CONTROL OF THE FORMATION OF α, β-UNSATURATED SULFONES AND THE β-T-BUTOXY AND β-HYDROXY MICHAEL ADDUCTS

Abstract

Inorganic sulfur compounds are used by microorganisms (bacteria, fungi, algae) and plants for assimilation, i.e. biosynthesis of sulfur-containing cell constituents.

Quantitatively, within the biogeochemical cycle of sulfur the utilization of inorganic sulfur compounds in bacterial energy metabolism, i.e. dissimilatory sulfur utilization, is of far higher importance. Reduced sulfur compounds serve as electron donors for photosynthesis and respiration, whereas inorganic sulfur compounds of oxidation levels above sulfide serve as electron donors in anaerobic respiration as well as in fermentation. In still other bacteria reduced sulfur compounds act as protective agents against hydrogen peroxide.     

REACTIVITY OF SULFUR HETEROCYCLES

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The relationship between ring strain and the reactivity of alicyclic compounds has been of fundamental importance in the development of modern organic chemistry. Because of their biological interest, the reactivity and stereochemistry of cyclic phosphorus compounds have been extensively studied.^1,2 In recent years the reactivity of cyclic sulfur compounds has also begun to attract considerable interest. In 1966 it was pointed out that the common feature of sulfur-containing heterocycles is that nucleophilic attack at sulfur, be it di-, tri-, or tetra-coordinated, is always faster than the corresponding open-chain analogues.³ The present review attempts to discuss some fo the factors which affect the reactivity of cyclic sulfur compounds towards nucleophilic attack and to draw attention to some of the recently observed exceptions to this generalization.     

REACTION OF AROMATIC NITRO COMPOUNDS WITH ELEMENTAL SULFUR IN LIQUID AMMONIA AND AMINES

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Aromatic nitro compounds were reduced with elemental sulfur in liquid ammonia and in amines, yielding the corresponding anilines. However, introduction of a substituent on the benzene ring or variation of the amine changed somewhat the pattern of this reaction. For example, 4-nitrotoluene (3) and 4-cyanonitrobenzene (6) were found to give not only the corresponding reduced products but also 4,4′-dicyanodiphenyl disulfide (10), formed by replacement of the nitro group, in addition to 4-cyanoaniline (9) in the reaction with elemental sulfur in liquid ammonia. Probable mechanisms of these reactions are discussed in the light of new knowledge on the similar reactions of elemental sulfur.     

CHEMISTRY OF BIOLOGICALLY ACTIVE SULFUR COMPOUNDS

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All living organisms require sulfur for various metabolic processes. Sulfur occurs in enzymes, in structural proteins of cells, and in a wide variety of naturally occurring compounds which often play key roles in metabolism. The chemistry and biochemistry of sulfur compounds has been reviewed.^1–3.     

THE CHEMISTRY OF 3-AMINOTHIOACRYLAMIDES; PART II: 3-AMINOTHIOACRYLAMIDES AS USEFUL SYNTHONS IN ORGANIC SYNTHESIS

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3-Aminothioacrylamides are a class of organic sulfur containing compounds that are easily available and exhibit polyfunctional reaction behaviour. They can be used widely in the synthesis of a variety of heterocyclic and open chain compounds. The synthetic utility of 3-aminothioacrylamides can be further extended if additional functionalities are incorporated.     

Spectral Assignment of Phenanthrene Derivatives Based on 6H-Dibenzo[C,E][1,2] Oxaphosphinine 6-Oxide by NMR and Quantum Chemical Calculations

Abstract

Organophosphorus compounds such as 6H-dibenzo[c,e][1,2]oxaphosphinine 6-oxide (DOPO, 1) and its derivatives are important and versatile compounds for a broad field of applications. However, a thorough spectral assignment is often subordinate to its chemical properties. This article presents and unambiguously attributes the ¹H and ¹³C NMR spectra of DOPO (1), selected products yielded from the Atherton–Todd reaction (2–4), DOPO-HQ (5) as well as sulfur derivatives (6–7) via a set of 1D- and 2D-NMR experiments. The complex P-C and P-H coupling patterns are discussed and compared with the derivatives possessing different chemical environments around the phosphorus atom. In addition, we compared our results with density functional theory calculations. Even though the prediction of NMR data of organophosphorus compounds via molecular modeling is limited, this study presents a method that yields good results for this class of heterocycles. This knowledge should help to quickly assign NMR spectroscopic data of other DOPO (1) derivatives and can be extrapolated to organophosphorus compounds in general.

Supplemental materials are available for this article. Go to the publisher's online edition of Phosphorus, Sulfur, and Silicon and the Related Elements for the following free supplemental resource: NMR Spectra of Compounds 1-7 (Figures S1 - S15).     

NEW SULFUR CHEMISTRY SYMPOSIUM. INTRODUCTORY REMARKS

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It is most appropriate to have a symposium on sulfur chemistry at a Southwest Regional Meeting. The Frasch sulfur process was first tried out and developed on the Gulf Coast. Organosulfur compounds are present in petroleum, which is produced in large amounts in this area, and also in the extensive lignite deposits in Texas. The chemistry of organosulfur compounds is important in many ways, for example: removal of organosulfur compounds from petroleum and lignite, pollution/environmental concerns, polymer chemistry, materials research, agriculture, medicinal uses, etc.     

Telluration and de-telluration: New ways for the cleavage and formation of P-P bonds

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Phosphanes react with tellurium much more selectively than with oxygen, sulfur and selenium. Tertiary phosphanes give “phosphane tellurides” that can equivalently be described as coordination compounds of the phosphanes with Te(O); these are kinetically labile to (phosphane) ligand substitution reactions in the nmr time scale.¹     

Synthesis and Reactions of New Vinyl Isothiocyanates

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New vinyl isothiocyanates, which can be prepared from easily accessible thiocyanates by [3,3] sigmatropic shifts, show unusually high reactivity used for the synthesis of heterocyclic sulfur compounds.     

Programmed Temperature Vaporization Injection (PTV) in the Analysis by Gas Chromatography-Mass Spectrometry (GC-MS) of the Constituents of Landfill Gas

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Trace volatile compounds emitted from both domestic and industrial landfills have been identified by programmed temperature vaporization injection (PTV) coupled to gas chromatography with detection by ion-trap mass spectrometry (GC-ITD/MS). The PTV injection system has been developed using a combination of two six-port valves to achieve problems of interference in GC-MS while loading sample. A large volume of landfill gas was re-concentrated onto a sorbent trap, then rapidly liberated into the GC-ITD/MS system by programmed thermal desorption. Using this method, trace volatile compounds in gases from both domestic and industrial landfills such as aromatic hydrocarbons, terpenes, chlorinated hydrocarbons, and sulfur compounds can be identified and quantified.     

ELECTRON-RICH THIAZENES: SOME PRINCIPLES OF SYNTHESIS AND STRUCTURE

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General methods of preparation and typical bond distances and bond angles (at sulfur and nitrogen) are reviewed for cyclic sulfur–nitrogen compounds. Correlations between sulfur-nitrogen bond distance and unstrained bond angles in SNS and NSN groups can be used to assess angular strain in 4 and 5 atom thiazene rings and the optimum ring geometries of larger thiazene cations such as S₅N⁺ ₅ and S₄N_{2+ 4}. The geometry of S₃N^? ₃ is also discussed.     

VICARIOUS NUCLEOPHILIC SUBSTITUTION WITH SULFUR CONTAINING CARBANIONS

Abstract

Carbanions stabilized with sulfur containing substituents are versatile intermedi-ates in organic synthesis. The great value and importance of such carbanions is connected with specific properties of the sulfur atom which is capable to exist in a variety of valent states and to form many functional groups. These various sulfur-containing groups exert different carbanion stabilizing effects and can also serve as leaving groups in nucleophilic substitution or elimination reactions. Taking into account numerous types of sulfur containing functional groups and a variety of reactions they can promote, it is well understandable that reactions of sulfur-containing carbanions have been thoroughly studied and widely exploited in organic synthesis. The reactions of such carbanions with aliphatic electrophilic partners: alkylating agents, carbonyl compounds and Michael acceptors consist a major section of this field and were subject of numerous studies as well as many monographs.¹ Contrary to that, not very much was known about reactions of such carbanions with electrophilic aromatic compounds. Actually, there are only few reports on nitroarylation of sulfur-containing carbanions via replacement of halogen orfho- or para- to the nitro group in halonitrocornpounds.² There are also some reports on the alkylation of nitroarenes and heterocyclic compounds in the reaction with sulfonium3 and sulfoxonium4 ylides, dimethylsulfoxide carbanion,⁵ and dialkyl or alkyl aryl sulfones carbanions.⁶     

Synthesis of Some Biologically Active Cyclopente-Nones using New Organophosphorus Reagents

Abstract

The use of organic phosphorus and sulfur compounds in the general synthesis of biologically active functionalized cyclopentenones is presented.     

Synthesis of 14-Aryl-14H-7-thiadibenzo[a,j]anthracene

Abstract

Preparation methods of dibenzoxanthene derivatives are surveyed alongside the synthesis of some of the titled compounds, which are the sulfur analogues of dibenzoxanthenes. Our new procedure for the conversion of phenols to thiophenols was used to prove the structure of such sulfur analogues.     

Novel Free Radical Reactions in Organosulfur Chemistry

Abstract

Our studies on homolytic and oxidative transformations of organic compounds of biand hexavalent sulfur cover mainly the following trends:     

SOLVENT CHARACTERISTICS OF MOLTEN SULFUR AT 132°C

Abstract

The activity coefficient of 50 solutes in liquid sulfur have been measured at infinite dilution by gas chromatography. The solvent-solute interactions have been examined in terms of chromatographic models, activity coefficients, and solubility parameter theory. The classification of sulfur with polar chromatographic solvents is examined and attributed to enhanced dispersion of sulfur with compounds which have, relative to alkanes, loosely held electron clouds. Solubility parameter theory is found to provide a basis for the correlation of the behavior of n-alkanes in liquid sulfur.     

Correlation between Electron Capture Response and Chemical Structure for Sulfur Compounds

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The temperature dependence of the electron capture process was investigated for a series of divalent sulfur compounds. The electron affinity and/or the activation energy for the electron capture reaction were calculated for individual compounds by plotting In KT^3/2 vs. 1/T, where K is the electron capture coefficient and T is the absolute temperature in the detector. The correlation between these values and chemical structure was discussed by means of 3d orbital resonance of the sulfur atom.     

Determination of Sulfur Compounds in Air by Chemiluminescence

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The present review is devoted to applications of chemiluminescence to the analysis of trace sulfur species in air. Determinations of oxidized (sulfur dioxide and sulfite), reduced (hydrogen sulfide, dimethyl sulfide, carbonyl sulfide, carbon disulfide and mercaptans) and/or sulfur compounds in general are described and some practical considerations are discussed. The development of detectors based on chemiluminescence in the aproximately last fifteen years is also reviewed.     

HMDST as Useful Tool in Organic Synthesis: A Further Step in the Delivery of Sulfur Functionalities

Abstract

Bis(trimethylsilyl)sulfide (HMDST) was demostrated to be a very efficient reagent in the delivery of sulfur functionalities, allowing us to synthesize a wide range of thiocarbonyl compounds. The most reactive derivatives were trapped with suitable dienes, leading to the synthesis of different heterocyclic molecules with an high degree of chemo- and regioselectivity. Recently, the mildness of this methodology also allowed us to obtain particularly reactive thiooxocompounds, such as thioformylsilanes, α,β-unsaturated thioaldehydes, thioketones, thioacylsilanes, and thioacylstannanes.