Synthesis of thiol esters using nano CuO/Ionic liquid as an eco-friendly reductive system under microwave irradiation

Article abstract of DOI:10.1002/ejoc.201300295

We report an efficient, fast, and environmentally friendly method for the synthesis of a wide range of thiol esters using stable diorganoyl disulfides and acyl chlorides, using CuO nanoparticles and [pmim]Br as the reductive system. This method gave good to excellent isolated yields of the desired products after only three minutes of microwave irradiation. Furthermore, by using the same green approach, we were also able to synthesize thiocarbonates bearing interesting functionalities. We report an efficient, fast, and environmentally friendly method for the synthesis of thiol esters starting from diorganoyl disulfides and acyl chlorides, and using CuO nanoparticles and [pmim]Br as the reductive system. This approach gave good to excellent isolated yields of the desired products in only three minutes under microwave irradiation. Copyright