Electron-transfer induced rearrangement of thiocyanate to isothiocyanate

…, T Etoh, H Yamamoto, S Yamamoto, Y Shigetomi

Index: Wakamatsu, Kan; Dairiki, Jun; Etoh, Tetsuo; Yamamoto, Hiroshi; Yamamoto, Satoshi; Shigetomi, Yasumasa Tetrahedron Letters, 2000 , vol. 41, # 3 p. 365 - 369

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Abstract

Benzyl thiocyanates with an electron-withdrawing group (1a, 1b) and 9-fluorenyl thiocyanate (1e) rearrange to the corresponding isothiocyanate (2) under 9, 10-diphenylanthracene (DPA) sensitization. The rearrangement would proceed via carbon–sulfur bond cleavage ...