Abstract
A thiol-olefin-cooxygenation (TOCO) radical chain reaction involving ground state molecular oxygen converts 2′-isopropenyl acetophenones directly into cyclic peroxy hemiketal products with three new bonds. Starting with 4-t-butylbenzenethiol, this TOCO process proceeds reproducibly on gram scale in 86% yield. Hemiketal→ketal and sulfide→sulfone transformations finally provide a series of sulfonyl cyclic peroxy ketals. The in vitro antimalarial activities of some of these structurally simple benzo-fused cyclic peroxides are reported.
Original language | English (US) |
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Pages (from-to) | 4120-4127 |
Number of pages | 8 |
Journal | Tetrahedron |
Volume | 62 |
Issue number | 17 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Apr 24 2006 |
Keywords
- Endoperoxides
- Malaria
- Molecular oxygen
- Radical oxygenation
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Biochemistry
- Drug Discovery
- Organic Chemistry