Abstract
Abstract Treatment of olefins with a mixture of iodine and mercury(II) thiocyanate in benzene or diethyl ether gives vic-iodo(isothiocyanato)alkanes and vic-iodo(thiocyanato)alkanes in a high yield, the former being predominant. Similar results were obtained by using silver(I) and thallium(I) thiocyanates, though both the yield and the selectivity are slightly lower. By use of potassium thiocyanate and copper(I) isothiocyanate in place of mercury(II) thiocyanate, β-iodo thiocyanates were mainly formed. A reaction scheme involving initial formation of an iodonium ion from olefin and ISCN (formed in situ) and a subsequent attack of complex anion I(SCN)2− has been proposed to account for this predominant formation of β-iodo isothiocyanates.
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