G. Capozzi et al., PHTHALIMIDESULFENYL CHLORIDE .8. REACTION WITH ACTIVATED ARENES - THEFIRST EXAMPLE OF ORTHO-THIOQUINONES GENERATION, Tetrahedron letters, 35(50), 1994, pp. 9451-9454
Phthalimidesulfenyl chloride 1 reacts with activated arenes 2a-g, to g
ive monosubstituted derivatives 3a-g. Hydroxysulfenyl compounds 3a-d h
ave been used as suitable source of alpha-oxothiones (ortho-thioquinon
es) 4a-d, which act as heterodienes in 4+2 cycloaddition reactions.