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InChI:InChI=1/C4H10S/c1-2-3-4-5/h5H,2-4H2,1H3/p-1

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• 109-79-5 n-butanethiol 

Downstream Products

• 109-79-5 n-butanethiol 
• 629-45-8 dibutyl disulfide 
• 18430-02-9 3-carboxy-4-nitrobenzenethiolate 

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The Ever-surprising chemistry of boron: Enhanced acidity of phosphine·boranes

The gas-phase acidity of a series of phosphines and their corresponding phosphine·borane derivatives was measured by FT-ICR techniques. BH 3 attachment leads to a substantial increase of the intrinsic acidity of the system (from 80 to 110 kJ mol-1). This acidity-enhancing effect of BH3 is enormous, between 13 and 18 orders of magnitude in terms of ionization constants. This indicates that the enhancement of the acidity of protic acids by Lewis acids usually observed in solution also occurs in the gas phase. High- level DFT calculations reveal that this acidity enhancement is essentially due to stronger stabilization of the anion with respect to the neutral species on BH3 association, due to a stronger electron donor ability of P in the anion and better dispersion of the negative charge in the system when the BH3 group is present. Our study also shows that deprotonation of ClCH2PH2 and ClCH 2PH2·BH3 is followed by chloride departure. For the latter compound deprotonation at the BH3 group is found to be more favorable than PH2 deprotonation, and the subsequent loss of Cl- is kinetically favored with respect to loss of Cl - in a typical SN2 process. Hence, ClCH2PH 2·BH3 is the only phosphine·borane adduct included in this study which behaves as a boron acid rather than as a phosphorus acid.

Unraveling structure-reactivity relationships in SNV reactions: Kinetics of the reactions of methoxybenzylidenemalononitrile, 2-(methylthiobenzylidene)- 1,3-indandione, 2-(benzylthiobenzylidene)-1,3-indandione, and methyl β-methylthio-α-nitroci

The kinetics of the title reactions were determined in 50% DMSO-50% water (v/v) at 20 °C; n-BuS-, HOCH2CH2S-, and MeO2CCH2S- were used as thiolate ions. The reactions with the th

Detection and kinetic characterization of SNV intermediates. Reactions of thiomethoxybenzylidene Meldrum's acid with thiolate ions, alkoxide ions, OH-, and water in aqueous DMSO

The reaction of thiomethoxybenzylidene Meldrum's acid (5-SMe) with thiolate and alkoxide ion nucleophiles is shown to proceed by the two-step addition-elimination SNV mechanism in which the tetrahedral intermediate accumulates to detectable levels. For the reactions with thiolate ions, rate constants for nucleophilic addition (k1RX), its reverse (k-1RX), and for conversion of the intermediate to products (k2RX) were determined. For the reactions with alkoxide ions, only k1RX and k-1RX could be obtained; the intermediate in these reactions did not yield the expected substitution products, and hence no k2RX values could be determined. The reaction with OH- and water are believed to follow the same mechanism, but the respective intermediates remain at steady-state levels, and only k1OH and k1H2O for nucleophilic attack on 5-SMe were measurable. New insights regarding structure-reactivity behavior in SNV reactions are gained from comparisons of rate and equilibrium constants in the reactions of 5-SMe with the corresponding parameters in the reactions of methoxybenzylidene Meldrum's acid (5-OMe) and benzylidene Meldrum's acid (5-H). In particular, the relative importance of steric and π-donor effects of the MeS vs. MeO group in 5-SMe and 5-OMe, respectively, and their role in affecting the intrinsic rate constants for nucleophilic addition, has been clarified by these comparisons. Our results also add support to a previous suggestion that soft-soft type interactions tend to increase intrinsic rate constants for thiolate ion addition to vinylic substrates, especially 5-SMe with the soft MeS group.

Kinetics of Reversible Thiolate Ion Addition to Substituted β-Nitrostyrenes in Water. Radicaloid Transition State or Principle of Nonperfect Synchronization?

The kinetics of reversible nucleophilic thiolate ion (RS- with R = n-Bu, HOCH2CH2, MeO2CCH2CH2 and MeO2CCH2) addition to Z-substituted β-nitrostyrenes (Z = 4-Me2N, 4-MeO, 4-MeS, 4-Me, H, 3-Cl, 4-Cl, 3-CN, 4-CN, and 3-NO2), to form ArCH(RS)CH=NO2-, have been measured in water at 20 deg C.Rate constants in the forward (k1) and reverse direction (k-1) and equilibrium constants (K1) correlate reasonably well with Hammett ?-constants for the non-?-donor substituents but show deviations for the ?-donors 4-Me2N, 4-MeO, and 4-MeS.These deviations are negativefor K1 but positive for k1 and k-1; the positive deviations for the ?-donor substituents are also observed when plotting log k1 vs log K1 (Broensted plots).The negative deviations of K1 are a consequence of resonance stabilization of the olefin.The positive deviations are attributed to a transition-state stabilization stemming from a preorganization created by the ?-donor which leads to a better delocalization of the negative charge into the nitro group.An alternative interpretation of the rate acceleration in terms of a radicaloid transition state (Gross, Z.; Hoz, S.J.Am.Chem.Soc. 1988, 110, 7489) cannot be ruled out but is shown to be less attractive and unnecessary.Broensted parameters such as βnuc, βeq, βnnuc, and βnlg, and intrinsic rate constants (k0 = k1 = k-1 when K1 = 1) were determined from the dependence on the RS- basicity for β-nitrostyrene and 3-cyano-β-nitrostyrene. βeq is low (0.5), indicating that the carbon basicity of RS- is less sensitive to electronic effects in R than its proton basicity. βnuc (βnnuc) is very low, suggesting a transition state withvery little C-S bond formation.The low βnnuc (0.22) contrasts with a large αnnuc = d log k1/d log K1 = 0.74 (variation of Z), indicating a large transition-state imbalance (αnnuc - βnnuc), as previously observed in the reaction of RS- with α-nitrostilbenes.The intrinsic rate constant (log k0 = 3.5) is also similar to that for the reaction of RS- with α-nitrostilbenes and significantly higher than for the reaction of amines with β-nitrostyrenes.Most of these features can, at least in part, be attributed to the soft acid-soft base interactions of RS- with the nitroolefins.Rate constants for carbon protonation of several of the ArCH(RS)CH=NO2- adducts by acetic acid (kHAp were also determined.They display the unusual, but for nitronate ions typical, acceleration when Ar and/or R is made more electron withdrawing.