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STUDIES OF HETEROCYCLIC COMPOUNDS. III. SYNTHESIS AND THERMAL DECOMPOSITIONS OF SOME 2-THIOPHENEMERCURIC DERIVATIVES
Obafemi, Craig A.
, p. 1 - 7 (1981)
2-Thiophenemercuric chloride(I), on reaction with sodium or silver thiocyanate, silver azide, silver acetate, and silver trifluoromethanesulfonate gave the 2-thiocyanate (2), 2-azide (4), 2-acetate (5) and 2-trifluoromethanesulfonate (6), respectively.The thermal decompositions of these compounds, together with that of 2,2'-dithienyl mercury, have been studied.The 2-thiophenemercuric triflate (6) decomposes at room temperature to give 2,2'-dithienylmercury.The 2-azide (4), when treated with either cyclohexene or triphenylphosphine, gave only the 2,2'-dithienylmercury.All the 2-thiophenemercuric salts decompose at about 300 deg C to give only a black insoluble residue.With the aid of some control experiments and comparison with previous work on phenyl- and p-tolyl-mercuric salts, a mechanism is proposed to account for the results.