Metal-Free,One-Pot Oxidative Conversion of Aldehydes to Primary Thioamides in Aqueous Media

One-pot tandem reactions of a variety of aldehydes with aqueous ammonia, molecular iodine, and O,O-diethyl dithiophosphoric acid readily afford the corresponding primary thioamides. This is an inexpensive, practical, and metal-free way of accessing various thioamides from aldehydes in aqueous media. The pure products are obtained simply by filtration followed by successive washing with aqueous sodium thiosulfate and water.

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