Journal of the American Chemical Society

The action of aluminum bromide on some halogenated thiophenols and benzyl phenyl sulfides

HF Wilson, DS Tarbell

Index: Wilson; Tarbell Journal of the American Chemical Society, 1950 , vol. 72, p. 5200,5203

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Abstract

During a continuation of some investigations? on the cleavage of benzyl phenyl sulfides by aluminum bromide, it was noted that 4-bromothiophenol (I), in chlorobenzene solution containing a molar equivalent of aluminum bromide, showed a rapid disappearance of the thiol group, as determined by iodine titration. The product, which was formed in high yield, was found to be 4-chlorodiphenyl sulfide (V), and was characterized by oxidation to the ...