Organometallics

Carbon− Sulfur Bond Cleavage of Methyl-Substituted Thiophenes with Iridium (III)

MR Grochowski, WW Brennessel, WD Jones

Index: Grochowski, Matthew R.; Brennessel, William W.; Jones, William D. Organometallics, 2009 , vol. 28, # 9 p. 2661 - 2667

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Abstract

The [Cp* IrHCl] 2 dimer reacts under hydrogen with the substituted thiophenes 2- methylthiophene, 2, 5-dimethylthiophene, and 2-acetylthiophene to give ring-opened and hydrogenation μ-thiolate products. Several of these species are formed as diastereomers due to chirality at both the sulfur and the adjacent methine center.