Bulky thiols and their coordination compounds. An improvement of the removal method of tetrahydropyranyl group from thiols and its application for ligand syntheses

Article abstract of DOI:10.1246/cl.1996.999

The route for the syntheses of alkanthiols having bulky groups at the neighborhood of sulfur atoms was improved, and applied for the preparation of thiol ligands that mimic the cysteine containing metal binding sites in proteins. The new method developed