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Acid-promoted Decomposition of Benzenesulphenanilides and N-Aryl Bis(benzenesulphen)amides
Benati, Luisa,Montevecchi, P. Carlo,Spagnolo, Piero
, p. 2261 - 2266 (2007/10/02)
The decomposition of 4'-substituted benzenesulphanilides (1a-d) in the presence of trifluoroacetic acid (0.6 equiv.) leads to N-arylbis(benzenesulphen)amides (6a-d) in variable yields, depending on the 4'-substituent, in addition to disulphide (4) and anilines (3a-d), whereas products arising from sulphenylation of the N-aryl ring result from 3'-methoxybenzenesulphenanilide (1g).The 4'-nitro- and 3'-nitro-benzenesulphenanilides (1e,f) react with a slight excess of trifluoroacetic acid to give only (4), the thiosulphonate (5), and aniline (3e,f).The findings are interpreted in terms of possible nucleophilic attack at the S-N bond of a protonated sulphenanilide by the nitrogen or the N-aryl ring of another sulphenanilide unit, according to the nature of the substituent and its position, with displacement of aniline (3).The reaction of (1a-d) with 1.5 equiv. of trifluoroacetic acid leads to complete disappearance of the initially formed amides (6a-d) with concomitant formation of phenazines (9) and/or p-quinone di-imines (8).Similar results are obtained by using boron trifluoride-diethyl ether.Di-imines (8) and phenazines (9) are explained on the basis of a mechanism initially involving nucleophilic attack by (1) and/or (6) and/or (3) at the ortho and para positions of an intermediate cation, possibly (18A) or (18B), and loss of the disulphide (4).
