15863-52-2Relevant academic research and scientific papers
Synthesis of 4-nitrophenyl sulfones and application in the modified Julia olefination
Mirk, Daniela,Grassot, Jean-Marie,Zhu, Jieping
, p. 1255 - 1259 (2007/10/03)
4-Nitrophenyl (NP) sulfones have been successfully employed in the modified Julia olefination reaction with carbonyl compounds. The olefination reaction proceeds through a sequence of aldol addition, Smiles rearrangement, and elimination. The sulfones are easily prepared in high yields in a two-step sequence starting from inexpensive commercially available para- fluoronitrobenzenes via nucleophilic aromatic substitution by a mercaptane and subsequent oxidation under standard conditions. The modified Julia reaction between NP sulfones and a wide variety of aromatic aldehydes affords the corresponding styrenes, stilbenes and cinnamate derivatives in yields up to 97% and good stereoselectivities. A mechanistic rationale is advanced to explain the observed results. Georg Thieme Verlag Stuttgart.
Photooxidation of alkyl 4-nitrophenyl sulfides and sulfoxides. Observation of oxidative C-S bond cleavage and rearrangement reactions
Pasto, Daniel J.,Cottard, Fran?ois,Jumelle, Laurent
, p. 8978 - 8984 (2007/10/02)
Alkyl 4-nitrophenyl sulfides and sulfoxides undergo a self-photoinduced, singlet oxygen oxidation to produce a variety of products, including sulfonates and carbonyl compounds formed by the oxidative cleavage of the C-S bond of the sulfides and sulfoxides. Structural rearrangements are observed in the resulting carbonyl compounds formed in the oxidative cleavage of the C-S bond in the tert-amyl and 2-phenylethyl sulfides. An overall mechanism is proposed which involves the formation of peroxysulfoxides and peroxysulfones which undergo heterolytic C-S bond cleavage to form ion pairs which recombine to form persulfenates or persulfinates which then undergo photo- and/or thermallyinduced homolytic O-O bond cleavage to form alkoxy and sulfinyl or sulfonyl radicals. The alkoxy radicals undergo β-scission, disproportionation, or recombination with the sulfonyl radical to form the observed products. These C-S oxidative cleavage reactions have only been rarely observed in the earlier studies on the singlet oxygen oxidation studies of dialkyl sulfides, and are attributed, in part, to the presence of the 4-nitro group on the aromatic ring which greatly affects the susceptibility of the sulfur atom of the sulfides and sulfoxides toward nucleophilic attack, and on the reactivity of the peroxysulfoxides and peroxysulfones toward heterolytic cleavage of the O-S bond.
