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Fluorovinyl Thioethers as Putative Steric and Electronic Thioester Enolate Mimetics: Chemoselective HF Addition to Acetylene Thioethers

Davide Bello A , Rodrigo A. Cormanich A and David O’Hagan A B
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A EaStChem School of Chemistry and Centre for Biomolecular Sciences, University of St Andrews, KY16 9ST, UK.

B Corresponding author. Email: do1@st-andrews.ac.uk

Australian Journal of Chemistry 68(1) 72-79 https://doi.org/10.1071/CH14298
Submitted: 14 May 2014  Accepted: 28 May 2014   Published: 21 August 2014

Abstract

Fluorovinyl thioethers are presented as a putative biomimetic surrogate for the enol/ate of a thioester. A method is explored for the preparation of fluorovinyl thioethers by treatment of acetylene thioethers with pyridinium (poly)-hydrogen fluoride. Titration with pyridine is important for the selectivity of the reaction. Without titration the corresponding gem-difluoroethyl thioethers are generated. With titration the hydrofluorination reaction can be stopped at an intermediate stage to recover the fluorovinyl thioether, which is a relatively stable functionality to purification and manipulation. Preliminary density functional theory calculations indicate that the fluorovinyl thioether motif shares a comparable steric and electronic profile to a thioester enol. A fluorovinyl thioether representing the terminus of the pantothenoyl chain of acetyl-CoA is prepared as a relevant biomimetic example.


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