tetrathiomolybdate and ethylene-sulfide

Aziridinemethanol sulfonate esters react with tetrathiomolybdate 1 to give thiirane derivatives as the major product and cyclic disulfides as minor product under mild reaction conditions via an unprecedented thia-aza-Payne-type rearrangement. Interestingly, when the reaction of 1 was carried out with 2-aziridino-cyclohexanol derivatives it resulted in the formation of thia-bicyclo[3.1.1]heptane or dithia-bicyclo[3.2.1]octane derivatives.

Topics: Alcohols; Aziridines; Crystallography, X-Ray; Models, Molecular; Molecular Structure; Molybdenum; Stereoisomerism; Sulfides; Tosyl Compounds