N-Chlorosuccinimide as a versatile reagent for the sulfenylation of ketones: a facile synthesis of α-ketothioethers
✍ Scribed by J.S. Yadav; B.V. Subba Reddy; Ruchi Jain; Gakul Baishya
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 2008
- Tongue
- French
- Weight
- 153 KB
- Volume
- 49
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0040-4039
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✦ Synopsis
The sulfenylation of ketones having a-hydrogens has been achieved using N-chlorosuccinimide (NCS) under mild reaction conditions to produce a-ketothioethers in excellent yields with high selectivity. The use of NCS makes this method quite simple, convenient and practical.
📜 SIMILAR VOLUMES
MethyZthiomethyZ p-toZyZ sulfone r'l/ can be utizized fofbr synthesizing a-hydroxy ketones as weZZ as a-hydroxy aZdehydes, she hydroxy2 group of which is protected with acetyl, tetrahydropyrany2, or methoxymethy2 group.
Cyclic as well as acyclic ketones, both saturated and a,b-unsaturated, can be converted into their homologous enamines by Horner-Wittig reaction with g-methyl-L-anilinomethyl diphenylphosphine oxide (3). Enamines are highly valued intermediates in organic synthesis. They react with a large variety