SYNTHESIS AND REACTION OF NOVEL SULFUR-CONTAINING HETEROCYCLIC-SYSTEMS

The strained alkylidene episulfides were synthesized by carbene and alkylidene carbene additions to thiocarbonyl compounds/Thermal, photochemical, and acid catalyzed reactions have been extensively investigated, and and the transition metal-promoted reaction results in the first isolation of thioallyl iron tricarbonyl complex. Germylene and zirconocene also reacted with thioketene to give metallic analogue of alkylidene episulfides, which are excellent synthetic source of a variety of cyclogermanes and stable enethiolizable thioaldehyde. Thermal sulfurization of some 1, 2, 3-butatriene derivatives and 1, 2, 3-selena-diazoles with elemental sulfur has been examined to give a variety of novel cyclic polysulfides having an unique structure. Reactive silicon and germanium species also reacted with elemental sulfur and selenium to afford cyclic metallachalcogenides. © 1991, Taylor and Francis Group, LLC. All rights reserved.