Chemistry of the β-thiolactones: Substituent and solvent effects on thermal decomposition and comparison with the β-lactones
2014
The synthesis of a series of di-, tri-, and tetraalkyl β-thiolactones and β-lactones is described as well as their thermal decomposition with extrusion of carbon oxysulfide and carbon dioxide in two solvents of opposite polarities. The β-thiolactones are considerably more thermally stable than the β-lactones and require higher temperatures for efficient decomposition in both solvents, whatever the degree of substitution. The results are interpreted in terms of a zwitterionic mechanism for fragmentation with a change in the rate-determining step between the two series.
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