Brønsted Acid-Catalyzed Regioselective Hydrothiolation of Dienes: Solvent-Controlled Divergent Synthesis of Sulfides.

Org Lett

School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Shanghai Key Laboratory for Molecular Engineering of Chiral Drugs, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200240, P. R. China.

Published: October 2021

A Brønsted acid-catalyzed 1,4-addition hydrothiolation of branched 1,3-dienes was explored for the first time. A solvent-controlled divergent synthesis of sulfides is also disclosed. Use of acetonitrile as a solvent gave allylic sulfides as hydrothiolation products, while thiochromane derivatives (hydrothiolation/Friedel-Crafts products) were obtained using dichloromethane as the solvent. The origin of the regioselectivity of hydrothiolation was explored through density functional theory calculations.

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