Journal of the American Chemical Society

A New Method of Preparing Substituted Thiophenols

AH Herz, DS Tarbell

Index: Herz Journal of the American Chemical Society, 1953 , vol. 75, p. 73,77

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Citation Number: 15

Abstract

Attempts to carry out Friedel-Crafts acylations of diphenyl disulfide or formaldehyde diphenyl mercaptal were unsuccessful; however, it was shown that the readily formed addition product of a thiophenol and 3-nitrobenzalacetophenone is amenable to electrophilic substitution, and that this substituted addition product may be nearly quantitatively converted to the correspondingly substituted thiophenol. It was demonstrated by the preparation of ...