Rosolic Acid–Catalyzed Conversion of Thiols to Disulfides

Abstract

Various aliphatic and aromatic thiols are converted to the corresponding disulphides by catalytic reaction of 4-[bis-(4-hydroxyphenyl)methylene]-cyclohexa-2,5-dienone in good yield.

Keywords:

• Catalyst
• disulfides
• redox dye
• rosolic acid
• thiols

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

Authors thank the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, New Delhi, India, for financial assistance.

Notes

^a All the reactions were performed at room temperature for 1 h.

^b For entries 8–10 N,N-dimethylformamide was used as the solvent.