Rhodium-Catalyzed Reductive Coupling of Disulfides and Diselenides with Alkyl Halides, Using Hydrogen as a Reducing Agent
作者:Kaori Ajiki、Masao Hirano、Ken Tanaka
DOI:10.1021/ol051588n
日期:2005.9.1
[reaction: see text] We have established that RhCl(PPh3)3 catalyzes a reductive coupling of disulfides and diselenides with alkyl halides in the presence of triethylamine using hydrogen as a reducing agent. This reaction serves as a convenient new method to produce unsymmetrical sulfides and selenides from disulfides and diselenides instead of unstable and odoriferous thiols and selenols.
A catalytic system of regioselective synthesis of allyl sulfides via hydrothiolation of terminal arylallenes with arylthiols has been developed using nickel(0) complex Ni (PMe3)4 as a catalyst. In most cases the excellent to moderate yields were obtained under mild conditions. A catalytic mechanism was suggested and partially‐experimentally verified. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first
ZrCl4 which is commercially available and not a costly compound, is a relatively safe chemical [LD50 [ZrCl4, oral rat] = 1688 mg Kg]. In this report we describe the use of ZrCl4 dispersed on dry silica gel as an efficient reagent for the efficient preparation of thioethers from thiols with alcohols under solvent-free conditions. (c) 2005 Published by Elsevier Ltd.