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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 11, 1999
Filed:
May. 01, 1997
K Pushpananda Senaratne, Baton Rouge, LA (US);
Charles R Everly, Baton Rouge, LA (US);
Won S Park, Baton Rouge, LA (US);
Albemarle Corporation, Richmond, VA (US);
Abstract
A mixture formed from one or more alkyl disulfides, benzene, and at least about 1.5 equivalents of Lewis acid catalyst is heated to form alkanethiobenzene. Reaction in a mixture formed from excess benzene, dimethyldisulfide (DMDS) and AlCl.sub.3 in which the mole ratio of AlCl.sub.3 to DMDS was 2:1 was complete in 2 hours and afforded 98% conversion and 93% yield of thioanisole. In contrast, the same reaction when attempted using a 1:1 mole ratio of AlCl.sub.3 to DMDS after 6 hours achieved only 66% conversion and a thioanisole yield of only 35%. So far as is known, this is the first example of a highly efficient electrophilic aromatic substitution of the inactivated benzene ring by an alkanethio group.