ChemInform Abstract: Reaction of Thiocamphor with Disulfur Dichloride: Novel Formation of α-Disulfine.

✍ Scribed by Kentaro Okuma; Toshiaki Tsubota; Miki Tabuchi; Masayuki Kanto; Noriyoshi Nagahora; Kosei Shioji; Yoshinobu Yokomori

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 2010
• Weight: 27 KB
• Volume: 41
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0931-7597
• DOI: 10.1002/chin.201047180

✦ Synopsis

Abstract

Reaction of thiocamphor (I) with disulfur dichloride affords six‐ and seven‐membered tricyclic polysulfanes (II) and (III), respectively, which are oxidized by MCPBA to give bicyclic (E,E)‐α‐disulfine (IV) stereoselectively.