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From symmetrical tetrasulfides to trisulfide dioxides: Via photocatalysis
Gong, Kai,Jiang, Xuefeng,Zhou, Yilin
supporting information, p. 9865 - 9869 (2021/12/24)
A straightforward strategy involving photocatalysis has been established for accessing trisulfide dioxides from readily achieved symmetrical tetrasulfides. Stern-Volmer analysis and radical quenching experiments demonstrated the occurrence of a single electron transfer between the photocatalyst and sulfinic acid. Bioactive molecules such as the antihypertensive drug captopril, allicin derivatives, amino acids and terpenes were efficiently and reversibly linked through sulfur-sulfur covalent bonds. Furthermore, flow-setup syntheses of trisulfide dioxides were successfully achieved on the gram scale, indicating the great potential of the developed protocol for practical industrial applications. This journal is
Radical Substitution Provides a Unique Route to Disulfides
Wu, Zijun,Pratt, Derek A.
, p. 10284 - 10290 (2020/07/27)
Radical substitution on tetrasulfides is demonstrated to be a highly effective means to prepare unsymmetric disulfides. Alkyl and aryl radicals generated thermally or photochemically underwent substitution on readily prepared dialkyl, diaryl, and diacyl tetrasulfides to yield the corresponding disulfides in good to excellent yields. Classic and contemporary thermal and photochemical radical sources could be employed; while photoredox catalysis approaches led to either oxidation or reduction of the tetrasulfide, energy transfer photocatalysis was particularly useful. The success of the approach is driven by the thermodynamic stability of the perthiyl radicals formed upon substitution on the tetrasulfide; they simply combine under the reaction conditions to provide the starting tetrasulfide. Competition kinetic experiments reveal that alkyl radical substitution on tetrasulfides is a rapid reaction (6 × 105 M-1 s-1) that is enhanced at least 6-fold upon moving from dialkyl tetrasulfide to diacyl tetrasulfide due to favorable polar effects. This unique and versatile reaction enables introduction of disulfide moieties from a variety of radical precursors and straightforward access to hydropersulfides.
Oxidation of thiols to bisulfides by elemental sulfur without contamination by higher polysulfides
Shaw, James E.,McAfee, Marilyn G.
, p. 125 - 131 (2007/10/03)
Dialkyl disulfides were prepared in near quantitative yield by oxidation of alkanethiols with elemental sulfur using NaOH and ethoxylated alcohols as catalysts. Tergitol 15-S-7 was one of several ethoxylated alcohols which was used. Contamination by trisulfides was essentially eliminated in the disulfide products. The ratios of disulfide to trisulfide ranged from 100/0 to 99.6/0.4 for reactions with primary and secondary alkanethiols (100% excess) such as 1-propanethiol, 1-octanethiol, 2-propanethiol, and 2-butanethiol. The process did not work for tertiary alkanethiols such as 2-methyl-2-propanethiol where the trisulfide was greatly favored.