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Spectroscopic evidence for a new type of bonding between a thioether radical cation and a phenyl group

Monney, Nicolas P.-A. ; Bally, Thomas ; Bhagavathy, Ganga S. ; Glass, Richard S.

In: Organic Letters, 2013, vol. 15, no. 19, p. 4932–4935

The oxidation potential of thioethers constrained to be near aromatic rings is lowered, due to an antibonding interaction between the p-type sulfur lone pair with the neighboring phenyl π-system which on removal of an electron becomes a new kind of 3-electron S∴π bonding that reveals itself in the photoelectron spectrum and by an electronic transition involving the orbitals participating in...

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Synthesis and rotation barriers in 2, 6-Di-(o-anisyl) anisole

Yamamoto, Takuhei ; Chen, Pi-Yu ; Lin, Guangxin ; Błoch-Mechkour, Anna ; Jacobsen, Neil E. ; Bally, Thomas ; Glass, Richard S.

In: Journal of Physical Organic Chemistry, 2012, p. -

Variable temperature ¹H NMR spectroscopic studies of 2, 6-di(o-anisyl) anisole show syn and anti atropisomers at low temperature. The barrier for interconverting these isomers by rotation about the aryl-aryl bond, found by fitting the experimental data, is 41.2 kJ/mol.

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Synthesis and structure of m-terphenyl thio-, seleno-, and telluroethers

Zakai, Uzma I. ; Błoch-Mechkour, Anna ; Jacobsen, Neil E. ; Abrell, Leif ; Lin, Guangxin ; Nichol, Gary S. ; Bally, Thomas ; Glass, Richard S.

In: Journal of Organic Chemistry, 2011, vol. 75, no. 24, p. 8363–8371

Several routes for the synthesis of m-terphenyl thio-, seleno-, and telluroethers were investigated. m-Terphenyl iodides react with diphenyl diselenides or ditellurides (CsOH·H₂O, DMSO, 110 °C) to give the desired compounds in 19−84% yield which significantly extends the previously reported such reactions because o-benzyne cannot be an intermediate as previously...