T. Tobien et al., FREE-RADICAL AND ELECTROCHEMICALLY INDUCED OXIDATION OF ORGANIC SULFUR-COMPOUNDS, SELENIUM-COMPOUNDS AND PHOSPHORUS-COMPOUNDS, Phosphorus, sulfur and silicon and the related elements, 95-6(1-4), 1994, pp. 249-263
A series of MeS(CH2)(n)SMe, MeS(CH2)(n)SeMe, MeSe(CH2)(n)SeMe (with n
= 1-5), and RS(CH2)(n)PEt(2) (n = 2-4) have been investigated with res
pect to their radiation chemical one-electron and electrochemical two-
electron oxidations. The results essentially confirm an interaction of
the two respective heteroatoms in these compounds already in the unox
idized state. Oxidation is thus achieved by removal of antibonding sig
ma electrons.