Important aspects of the electrochemical reduction of aryl thiocyanates were investigated. A striking change in the reductive cleavage mechanism as a function of the substituent on the aryl ring of the aryl thiocyanate is observed. A similar behavior has been reported for benzyl halides. This is different from what is widely reported for aryl halides where a stepwise mechanism is taking place r...

A new method for the cyanation of thiols and disulfides using cyanobenziodoxol(on)e hypervalent iodine reagents is described. Both aliphatic and aromatic thiocyanates can be accessed in good yields in a few minutes at room temperature starting from a broad range of thiols with high chemioselectivity. The complete conversion of disulfides to thiocyanates was also possible. Preliminary computatio...

Ever since Pauli' first recommended thiocyanates for the treatment of hypertension almost forty years ago, the therapeutic value of these drugs has been a subject of controversy. Interest apparently declined after Ayman's pronouncement,' in 1931, that thiocyanates lacked dinical usefulness because there appeared to be an insufficient margin of safety between the hypotensive and the toxic doses....

1,4-bis(triphenylphosphonium)-2-butene dichloride was developed as a new phase transfer catalyst. This quaternized phosphonium salt catalyzed the regioselective ring opening of epoxides by thiocyanate ion to give β-hydroxy thiocyanates in high yields under mild conditions.

Density functional theory (DFT) and ab initio MP2 methods have been applied to characterize the structural features of seven different bonding isomers of copper() thiocyanate dianion complexes (Sand/or N-bonded). The DFT calculations were carried out by means of the hybrid Becke 3LYP functional, using the 6-3111G* basis set. The ab initio calculations were done at the MP2/6-3111G* theoretical ...

The new flexible spacer ligand 1,3-bis(4-pyridyl)propane-N,N'-dioxide forms three classes of isomorphous compounds with metal(iI) thiocyanates at controlled ligand-metal molar ratios, and its mu3-O,O,O' mode leads to a pair of coordination networks having the same (4, 4) topological characteristics but different mono- and di-nuclear nodes.