Nature Communications (Aug 2020)

Unsymmetrical polysulfidation via designed bilateral disulfurating reagents

  • Jiahui Xue,
  • Xuefeng Jiang

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-18029-z
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 8

Abstract

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The functionalization of a sulfur-sulfur motif is synthetically challenging but highly desired for the production of bioactive compounds. Here, the authors report a disulfurating reagent for sequential and modular assembly of polysulfides where the S-S motif is functionalized with different C-, N- and S-nucleophiles.