The Journal of organic chemistry

Oxidation of symmetric disulfides with hydrogen peroxide catalyzed by methyltrioxorhenium (VII)

Y Wang, JH Espenson

Index: Wang, Ying; Espenson, James H. Journal of Organic Chemistry, 2000 , vol. 65, # 1 p. 104 - 107

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Abstract

Organic disulfides with both alkyl and aryl substituents are oxidized by hydrogen peroxide when CH3ReO3 (MTO) is used as a catalyst. The first step of the reaction is complete usually in about an hour, at which point the thiosulfinate, RS (O) SR, can be detected in nearly quantitative yield. The thiosulfinate is then converted, also by MTO-catalyzed oxidation under these conditions, to the thiosulfonate and, over long periods, to sulfonic ...