Direct cross-coupling access to diverse aromatic sulfide: palladium-catalyzed double C-S bond construction using Na2S2O3 as a sulfurating reagent

Deep Eutectic Mixture Catalysed the Synthesis of Disulfides Using Bunte Salts as Thiol Surrogates

Bunte salts, easily prepared from odourless sodium thiosulfates and various alkyl and aryl halides, acted as thiol surrogates for preparation of disulfides in the presence of hydrogen peroxide and a Brønsted-acidic deep eutectic mixture. The reaction proceeded smoothly to give the corresponding disulfide products in moderate to good yields, leaving odourless sodium bisulfite and water as the by-products. Moreover, this catalytic system could be readily recovered and reused several times without significant loss in activity.

Stereoselective construction of a key hydroindole precursor of epidithiodiketopiperazine (ETP) natural products

An asymmetric synthetic strategy for constructing the divergent-synthesis monomer of epidithiodiketopiperazine (ETP) natural products has been successfully developed. The functionalized 2,3,3a,4,7,7a-hexahydroindole scaffold was constructed by a diastereoselective inverse electron-demand Diels-Alder (IEDDA) reaction.

Palladium-catalyzed benzothieno[2,3-b]indole formation via dehydrative–dehydrogenative double C–H sulfuration using sulfur powder, indoles and cyclohexanones

An efficient procedure for benzothieno[2,3-b]indole formation via double C–H sulfuration using sulfur powder is described.

Ligand-free Cu-catalyzed odorless synthesis of unsymmetrical sulfides through cross-coupling reaction of aryl/benzyl/alkyl halides with an aryl boronic acid/S8 system as a thiolating agent in PEG

Efficient one-pot, one-step synthesis of unsymmetrical sulfides has been reported under mild reaction conditions with good yields in green solvent.

2′-Cyanoethyl thioglycosides: effective nucleophiles for synthesis of (hetero)aryl thioglycosides under the catalysis of Cu

2′-Cyanoethyl thioglycosides are designed and synthesized, which are demonstrated to function as powerful nucleophiles to a wide variety of organic iodides.

Catalyst-free direct decarboxylative coupling of α-keto acids with thiols: a facile access to thioesters

A catalyst-free protocol has been demonstrated for the synthesis of thioesters via the direct decarboxylation of α-keto acids with thiols.

The direct synthesis of symmetrical disulfides and diselenides by metal–organic framework MOF-199 as an efficient heterogenous catalyst

The MOF-199 was used as an efficient heterogeneous catalyst for the one-pot synthesis of organic disulfides/diselenides from aryl halides and elemental S/Se in polyethylene glycol (PEG) with good to excellent yields.

Transition-metal-free persulfuration to construct unsymmetrical disulfides and mechanistic study of the sulfur redox process

A sulfur redox process has been developed between sulfinate and thiosulfate, which efficiently affords diverse unsymmetrical disulfides and provides a new method to modify pharmaceuticals and natural products with this biologically active moiety without extra oxidant or reductant.

An odorless thia-Michael addition using Bunte salts as thiol surrogates

An efficient thia-Michael addition using odorless, easy to synthesis and handle Bunte salts as thiol surrogates is introduced.

CO2-promoted oxidative cross-coupling reaction for C–S bond formation via masked strategy in an odourless way

Cu-catalyzed direct oxidative cross-coupling between boronic acids and masked sulfides delivering thioethers was described, in which the SO₃⁻, as a mask, has shown a distinctive effect on the oxidative cross-coupling condition.

Sulfide synthesis through copper-catalyzed C–S bond formation under biomolecule-compatible conditions

We report here an efficient, mild and biomolecule-compatible method for constructing C–S bonds.

An odorless, one-pot synthesis of nitroaryl thioethers via SNAr reactions through the in situ generation of S-alkylisothiouronium salts

The synthesis of nitroaryl thioethers using thiourea as the sulfur source in water by an odorless one-pot process was disclosed.

Efficient silver-catalyzed direct sulfenylation and selenylation of rich arenes

An efficient protocol for silver/copper-cocatalyzed direct sulfenylation and selenylation of arenes with aryl disulfides and diselenides has been developed.