Trimethylphenylammonium Tribromide as a New and Efficient Oxidizing Agent for the Oxidative Coupling of Thiols into Disulfides and Chemoselective Oxidation of Sulfides into Sulfoxides

Abstract

Trimethylphenylammonium tribromide has been introduced as a versatile and new oxidizing agent for the preparation of disulfides and sulfoxides from thiols and sulfides, respectively. The reaction progress is simple, and proceeds under mild and homogenous conditions in ambient temperature.

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Keywords:

• Disulfides
• sulfides
• sulfoxides
• thiols
• tribromide
• trimethylphenylammonium

Acknowledgments

We are grateful to Ilam University, Ilam, Iran for financial support of this research project.