1,3-Dipolar Cycloadditions, 117 Reactions of Thiobenzophenone S-Methylide with Thiocarbonyl Compounds

摘要

2,5-Dihydro-2,2-diphenyl-1,3,4-thiadiazole (4) eliminates N_2 at -45 ℃ and generates thiobenzophenone S-methylide (5), which is intercepted by dipolarophiles. The 1,3-cycloadditions of 5 with thiones (aromatic and aliphatic thioketones, dithioesters, trithiocarbonate) furnish 1,3-dithiolanes 7, in which the substituents, even voluminous ones, appear in the proximal 4- and 5-positions. The reaction of 5 with adamantanethione furnishes 7h and 4,4,5,5-tetraphenyl-1,3-dithiolane (7a) in a ratio of 4:1; a methylene transfer is involved, and the mechanistic pathways are discussed. The cycloadduct 7f originating from 5 and diphenyl trithiocarbonate undergoes an isomerization which consists of ionization and ring-opening leading to a ketene dithioacetal structure.