Isothiocyanates exhibit diverse bioactivities and reactivities. This review describes a comprehensive summary of recent advances in isothiocyanate synthesis with a focus on substrate categorization.
The bis(pentafluorophenyl)borane-catalyzed E-selective isomerization of terminal alkenes to internal alkenes via a hydroboration/retro-hydroboration sequence is reported.
The reaction of HB(C6F5)2 with 1,2-dithiolene diiron complexes affords the first examples incorporating Lewis acidic borane moieties, allowing their reactivity toward hydride donors to be explored.
A series of organometallic complexes is reported to demonstrate the versatility in coordination mode of phosphine/sulfoxide carbone. Early and late transition metals can be chelated, in a mono- or bidentate fashion depending on the metal center.
The reactions of methanesulfonic acid and benzenesulfonic acid in binary superacidic systems HF/MF5 (M = As and Sb) were investigated to explore the effects of protonation on the C–S bond and the limits of the protonability of sulfonic acids.