N-p-Toluenesulfinylimidazole: A New in situ Reagent for the Mild and Efficient Synthesis of p-Toluenesulfinate Alkyl Esters and Aryl Esters
作者:Shawn R. Hitchcock、Jessica L. Shaw、Brad J. Austermuehle、Jordan M. Witte、Timothy R. Dorsey、Christina Delach、Christopher G. Hamaker
DOI:10.1055/a-1472-7578
日期:2021.8
A new synthetic methodology has been developed for the synthesis of sulfinate alkyl and aryl esters. The methodology involves the combination of p-toluenesulfinic acid and 1,1′-carbonyldiimidazole (CDI) to create the putative reagent sulfinylimidazole. The process spontaneously releases carbon dioxide upon the addition of the CDI to the acid suggesting the rapid formation of the proposed reagent. Reaction
A convenient and efficient method for the synthesis of various structurally functionalized sulfinates shows good substrate generality of alcohols and sodium sulfinates.
Reaction of alcohols with sodium arenesulfinates could afford either sulfones or sulfinates, and O‐attack of sulfinate anions onto in situ generated carbocation intermediates from alcohols was the previous proposed mechanism in many syntheses of sulfinates. This concept, which is often used consciously or unconsciously, was revised herein by using isotopic labeling experiments and development of an
A Mitsunobu approach for the synthesis of sulfinate esters by direct nucleophilic substitution of alcohols is described. The salient features of this strategy include neutral and metal‐free conditions for the rapid synthesis of sulfinates in high yields. The present protocol using p‐toluenesulfonylmethyl isocyanide (TosMIC) and the triphenylphosphine (TPP)/diisopropyl azodicarboxylate (DIAD) reagent
A bismuth(III) bromide‐catalysed direct substitution of benzylalcohols with arylsulfonylmethylisocyanides affords sulfinates under mild acidic conditions. An unforeseen reversed reactivity was observed in this highly selective formation of sulfinates instead of the formation of the usually favoured sulfones. Cytotoxicity tests (in vitro) indicated that the sulfinates exhibit antibiotic activity against