摘要:
A study of alkylation, conjugation addition and cyclisation reactions of sulphoxides was carried out. Lithiation of 4-alkoxybutyl p-tolyl sulphoxides with lithium diisopropylamide and alkylation with methyl iodide and benzyl bromide gave very poor stereoselectivity, but use of the corresponding t-butyl derivatives led to a large increase in selectivity. Addition of lithiated phenethyl t-butyl sulphoxides to methyl acrylate and methyl crotonate at low temperature, gave the conjugation addition products in good yields. Moreover, the stereoselectivity was high and an x-ray crystal structure determination was used to determine the relative configuration of the adduct derived from methyl crotonate. Attempted cyclisation of the methyl acrylate conjugation addition product, and the alcohol obtained by reduction with lithium aluminium hydride, by reduction of the sulphoxides, S-methylation of the resulting sulphides and intramolecular displacements of the sulphonium salts could not be achieved since S-alkylations using reagents such as methyl triflate and trimethyloxonium tetrafluoroborate were not successful under various conditions. However, reaction of the methyl acrylate adducts with iodotrimethylsilane resulted in the reduction of the sulphoxides, cleavage of the t-butyl sulphides and cyclisation leading to a cyclic thioester. The corresponding alcohol yielded a tetrahydrothiophene and this is a new method for the formation of this ring system.