SPECIFIC RECOGNITION OF NONPOLAR GROUPS IN AQUEOUS MEDIA. LARGER SELECTIVITY DIFFERENCES IN OXIDATION OF ASSOCIATING THIOLS IN AQUEOUS MIXED SOLVENTS THAN IN NONAQUEOUS ONES

Article abstract of DOI:10.1246/cl.1984.1717

Environment dependence of the selectivity in oxidation of a pair of associating thiols was examined in binary solvent mixtures of an alcohol or acetonitrile with water and an organic cosolvent.The discrimination between the two nonpolar groups (n- and i-C5H11 groups, phenyl and p-tolyl groups, or n- and i-C4H9 groups) of one of the thiols was found to occur more specifically in aqueous media than in the corresponding nonaqueous media.