Gas-Phase Reactions of Fe(1-) and Co(1-) with Simple Thiols, Sulfides, and Disulfides by Fourier Transform Mass Spectrometry

Article abstract of DOI:10.1021/ja00185a013

Fe(1-) and Co(1-) are found to react with simple thiols, sulfides, and disulfides.The primary reaction products formed from these metal anions, M(1-), and thiols include MS(1-), MSH(1-), and MSH2(1-) and suggest a mechanism involving initial insertion of the metal into the weak C-S bond.Similarly, C-S insertion is the main mode of attack in the reactions with the sulfides and disulfides, in analogy to what is observed for the reaction of metal cations.Collision-induced dissociation is used to support the proposed structures for the primary products, H-Fe(1-)-SH andFe(1-)-SH.Some of the thermochemical data derived from this study include D⁰(M(1-)-S)>103 kcal/mol and D⁰(M(1-)-SH)=83 +/- 9 kcal/mol.Finally, a brief survey of the reactivity of V(1-), Cr(1-), and Mo(1-) with selected organosulfur compounds is also reported.