An efficient thioamination of alkenes mediated by iodine(III) reagents is described. The use of different sulfur nucleophiles allows the flexible synthesis of 1,2-aminothiols from alkenes. By employing chiral iodine(III) reagents, a stereoselective version of the thioamination protocol has also been developed.

Dittmar et al. proposed thatmixingalone can explain our observed decrease inmarine dissolved organic sulfur with age. However, their simple model lacks an explanation for the origin of sulfur-depleted organic matter in the deep ocean and cannot adequately reproduce our observed stoichiometric changes. Using radiocarbon age also implicitly models the preferential cycling of sulfur that they are ...

The downfield shift of the tyrosyl proton resonances and an increased chemical shift difference between the resonances for the 2',6' and 3',5' hydrogens in a series of deamino-oxytocin analogs modified in the disulfide bridge provide evidence for aromatic-sulfur interactions in d6-dimethylsulfoxide solutions.

It has been argued that excitonic energy transport in photosynthetic complexes is efficient because of a balance between coherent evolution and decoherence, a phenomenon called environment-assisted quantum transport (ENAQT). Studies of ENAQT have usually assumed that the excitation is initially localized on a particular chromophore, and that it is transferred to a reaction center through a simi...

The one-carbon ring expansion of 1-deoxy-1-thio-1,6-anhydrosugars, mediated by metal carbenes and proceeding through the intermediacy of sulfur ylides, has been proposed as a route for the synthesis of the tagetitoxin skeleton. Intermolecular reactions of such thioanhydrosugars with diazoesters afford a range of undesired products derived from the initially formed ylide, whereas use of an intra...

Ab initio potential energy and dipole moment surfaces are computed for sulfur trioxide (SO3) at the CCSD(T)-F12b level of theory with appropriate triple-zeta basis sets. The analytical representations of these surfaces are used, with a slight correction, to compute pure rotational and rotation-vibration spectra of (32)S(16)O3 using the variational nuclear motion program TROVE. The calculations ...