METAL-FREE, ONE-POT OXIDATIVE CONVERSION OF ALDEHYDES TO PRIMARY THIOAMIDES IN AQUEOUS MEDIA

One-pot tandem reactions of a variety of aldehydes with aqueous ammonia, molecular iodine, and O,O-diethyl dithiophosphoric acid readily afford the corresponding primary thioamides. This is an inexpensive, practical, and metal-free way of accessing various thioamides from aldehydes in aqueous media. The pure products are obtained simply by filtration followed by successive washing with aqueous sodium thiosulfate and water. [Supplementary materials are available for this article. Go to the publisher's online edition of Synthetic Communications (R) for the following free supplemental resource(s): Full experimental and spectral details.]