Organic & Biomolecular Chemistry 2009-04-07

Isolation of the key intermediates in the catalyst-free conversion of oxiranes to thiiranes in water at ambient temperature.

Christian M Kleiner, Luise Horst, Christian Würtele, Raffael Wende, Peter R Schreiner

Index: Org. Biomol. Chem. 7(7) , 1397-403, (2009)

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Abstract

Herein we shed light on the mechanism of the reaction of epoxides with ammonium thiocyanate to give the corresponding thiiranes in water, and we present a computational mechanistic model for this highly useful reaction.