Substitution Reactions of Thallous Thiophenoxide and Thallous Phenylselenide with Halogen-Bearing Substrates

Article abstract of DOI:10.1021/jo01289a018

Thallous thiophenoxide (1) and thallous selenide (2) were prepared by the action of either thallous ethoxide or thallous pentoxide on thiophenol and benzeneselenol.The reagents 1 and 2 reacted readily with aroyl and acyl halides, imidoyl chlorides, α-halo ketones, α-halo esters, α-halo lactones, α-halo carboxylic acids, allyl halides, alkyl halides, chlorotrimethylsilane, chloroacetonitrile, and N-chlorosuccinimide to give substitution products and varying amounts of diphenyl disulfide and diphenyl diselenide.The reactions were run as heterogeneous mixtures in ether.The origin of the diphenyl disulfide and diphenyl diselenide was homolytic cleavage of the thallium-sulfur or thallium-selenium bond, on the basis of the products derived from the reactions of N-chlorosuccinimide with 1 and 2.