US3591609A - Synthesis of 2-furyl thioethers - Google Patents

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  • a one step process of preparing a 2-furyl thioether which comprises reacting an aliphatic or aromatic mono or dithiol with a 2,S-diloweracyloxy-2,5-dihydrofuran; 2,5- dihydro 2,5 diloweralkoxyfuran; 2,5-dihydro 2,5 diloweralkoxy-Z-methyl furan, or fumaric dialdehyde.
  • Certain 2-furyl thioethers are novel compounds. Compounds prepared according to the described one step process are useful as silver complexing agents in photographic compositions.
  • This invention relates to a simplified synthesis of 2-furyl thioethers and certain novel 2-furyl thioethers.
  • it relates to a one-step method of preparing a 2-furyl thioether by reacting an aliphatic or aromatic mono or dithiol with certain dihydrofurans or fumaric dialdehyde.
  • it relates to certain novel 2-furyl thioethers which contain a carboxylalkylthio or carboxyarylthio group in the 2-position of a furan ring.
  • the compounds prepared according to the invention are useful as silver complexing agents in photographic compositions.
  • an object of the invention is to provide a simplified process for preparing Z-furyl thioethers.
  • Another object of the invention is to provide certain novel 2-furyl thioethers which are useful as silver complexing agents forming a stable silver complex useful as a stable source of silver for physical development.
  • a simplified method of preparing a 2-fury1 thioether comprises reacting in one step (A) an aliphatic or aromatic thiol, e.g., a monoor dithiol with (B) 1) 2,5-diloweracyloxy-2,5-hydrofuran,
  • the invention also comprises a 2-furyl thioether represented by the formula:
  • R is a divalent hydrocarbon radical containing 1 to 20 carbon atoms, e.g., alkylene containing 1 to 20 carbon atoms, such as methylene, propylene, butylene and pentylene, preferably lower alkylene containing 14 carbon atoms; or arylene, containing up to 20 carbon atoms, such as, phenylene.
  • alkylene containing 1 to 20 carbon atoms such as methylene, propylene, butylene and pentylene, preferably lower alkylene containing 14 carbon atoms
  • arylene containing up to 20 carbon atoms, such as, phenylene.
  • aliphatic and aromatic thiols e.g., mono or dithiol compounds
  • thiols especially mono or dithiol compounds, which provide the desired condensation with the described furan or dialdehyde starting materials.
  • Suitable aliphatic and aromatic mono thiol compounds include those represented by the formula:
  • R is a hydrocarbon radical, such as a hydrocarbon radical containing 1 to about 20 carbon atoms, e.g., alkyl, such as methyl, ethyl, propyl, butyl, eicosyl and the like, especially lower alkyl containing 1 to 5 carbon atoms, aryl such as phenyl, tolyl, xylyl and chlorophenyl; carboxyalkyl, e.g., containing 1 to 20 carbon atoms, such as carboxymethyl, carboxyethyl, carboxypropyl, carboxypentyl, carboxyoctyl, dicarboxyethyl, dicarboxypropyl, and the like; carboxyaryl, such as carboxyphenyl, carboxytolyl, containing up to 20 carbon atoms; acyl, such as acetyl, propionyl, butyryl and benzoyl; or hydroalkyl, such as containing 2 to about 20 carbon atom
  • R is a divalent hydrocarbon radical containing 1 to carbon atoms, such as alkylene, e.g., methylene, ethylene, propylene, butylene, pentylene and decylene, especially lower alkylene containing 1-5 carbon atoms, arylene, such as phenylene, xylylene, tolylene and chlorophenylene; carboxyalkylene, such as carboxymethylene, carboxyethylene, carboxypropylene, carboxybutylene, dicarboxypropylene and dicarboxybutylene; hydroxyalkylene, such as hydroxyethylene, hydroxypropylene, hydroxybutylene and hydroxypentylene; and carboxyarylene, such as carboxyphenylene and carboxyxylylene.
  • alkylene e.g., methylene, ethylene, propylene, butylene, pentylene and decylene, especially lower alkylene containing 1-5 carbon atoms
  • arylene such as phenylene,
  • Suitable aliphatic and aromatic mono or dithiols as described include:
  • Methanethiol Propanethiol Hexanethiol Dodecanethiol 1,2-ethanedithiol 1,4-butanedithiol Mercaptoethanol 2,2-dichloroethanethiol a-Toluenethiol Benzenethiol p-Chlorobenzenethiol Methyl mercaptoacetate Mercaptoacetic acid Methyl u-mercaptopropionate ,B-Mercaptopropionic acid ot-Mercaptopropionic acid Mercaptosuccinic acid o-Mercaptobenzoic acid Thioacetic acid A wide range of the described 2,5-dihydrofuran starting materials can also be employed.
  • Any solvent which is compatible with the described reactants and which permits the reaction of the invention to take place is suitable.
  • the following solvents have been found useful: acetonitrile, acetic acid and certain aromatic hydrocarbons, such as benzene and toluene.
  • the choice of solvent has not been found to be critical except that lower alcohols such as methanol or ethanol can interfere with the mechanism of the reaction in an instance where alkoxy substituted furans are employed as starting materials.
  • the concentration of solvent can vary over wide ranges and is usually sufiicient to dissolve the reactants or provide suitable mobility for the reactants. A useful concentration is about 100 to about 400 percent by weight of solvent based on the weight of the described furan starting materials.
  • the speed and yield of the reaction can be significantly improved by employing about 0.0001 to about 0.10 mole and typically about 0.001 to about 0.05 mole of catalyst per equivalent of the described furan starting material of an acid catalyst.
  • Any acid catalyst is suitable which provides the desired improvement in reaction speed and yield.
  • acid catalysts such as paratoluenesulfonic acid, sulfuric acid, maleio acid, acetic acid or oxalic acid have been found especially suitable. Oxygen and air can also catalyze the described reaction.
  • reaction conditions can be employed. Suitable temperatures for the described reaction can be from about 20 C. to about C. When a solvent reaction medium is employed the reaction is normally carried out at the reflux temperature of the solvent although in many cases it has been found useful to merely mix the described reactants in the solvent medium at room temperature such as at about 20 C. to about 30 C. until completion of the reaction.
  • the described reaction is usually carried out under normal atmospheric pressure, although increased pressure can be employed if desired. Since oxygen and air catalyze the reaction it is normally desirable to employ normal atmospheric conditions. The reaction, however, can be carried out in the absence of oxygen or air such as in a nitrogen atmosphere or other inert gas. In case oxygen or air is employed to aid in catalyzing the described reaction any suitable means and procedure can be employed for contacting the reaction mixture with air or oxygen such as by bubbling the catalyzing gas through the reaction mixture.
  • Suitable concentrations of the described reactants can vary over wide ranges but normally stoichiometric quantities are employed. Suitable concentration ratios of the described furan starting materials to the described thiol starting materials can be about 0.3 to about 3.0 equivalents of furan compound to thiol compound. A concentration range of about 0.5 to about 1.0 equivalents of described furan starting material is especially suitable. The desired concentration can be determined by those skilled in the art based on the particular starting materials and reaction conditions as well as solvent medium if one is employed.
  • the desired product can be recovered by methods commonly employed in organic chemistry such as by recrystallization from a suitable solvent such as ether, methylcyclohexane, ligroin and the like; distillation or extraction.
  • a suitable solvent such as ether, methylcyclohexane, ligroin and the like; distillation or extraction.
  • a typical method of the invention when employing 2,5- dihydro-Z,5-dimethoxyfuran as a starting material comprises mixing in acetonitrile about 0.4 mole of 2,5-dihydro 2,5-dimethoxyfuran and about 0.4 to about 0.5 mole of the described thiol starting material. Usually about 200 milliliters of acetonitrile is sufficient. About 0.1 gram of acid catalyst, such as p-toluene-sulfonic acid monohydrate, is added to the reaction mixture and the solution stirred at about 25 C. until reaction completion.
  • acid catalyst such as p-toluene-sulfonic acid monohydrate
  • the desired product can be recovered by diluting the reaction mixture with about an equal volume of water, neutralizing with an alkali metal bicarbonate such as sodium or potassium bicarbonate, extracting with a suitable solvent such as ether, drying over an agent such as magnesium sulfate, and distilling.
  • an alkali metal bicarbonate such as sodium or potassium bicarbonate
  • a suitable solvent such as ether
  • the reaction mixture can be stripped of solvent employing normal procedures of organic chemistry and the residues extracted with alkali such as a dilute solution of sodium hydroxide and the desired product is precipitated from solution employing hydrochloric acid followed by recrystallization from a suitable solvent such as acetonitrile, dilute acetic acid, benzene or toluene.
  • a second typical method of the invention which has been found suitable comprises preparing a solution of about 0.4 mole of 2,S-dihydro-Z,S-dimethoxyfuran and about 0.4 to about 0.5 mole of the described thiol starting material.
  • acetonitrile is a suitable solvent for the reaction mixture.
  • acid catalyst such as maleic acid
  • Another typical method of the invention comprises carrying out the described reaction by preparing a solution of 2,5-dihydro-2,S-dimethoxyfuran with a described thiol starting material in acetonitrile followed by heating the resulting reaction mixture at reflux. During reflux air can be bubbled slowly through the reaction mixture. This can provide higher yields and minimize possibility of decomposition While speeding the reaction.
  • R is a divalent hydrocarbon radical containing 1-20 carbon atoms, e. g., alkylene containing 1 to 20 carbon atoms, such as methylene, ethylene, propylene, butylene, pentylene and the like, preferably lower alkylene containing 1-5 carbon atoms.
  • alkylene containing 1 to 20 carbon atoms such as methylene, ethylene, propylene, butylene, pentylene and the like, preferably lower alkylene containing 1-5 carbon atoms.
  • the described compounds of the invention are useful as silver complexing agents in photographic compositions, especially as stable sources of silver for physical development when complexed with silver. Suitable compositions and elements are described in copending application U.S. Ser. No. 764,330 of J. D. Bass, filed Oct. 1, 1968.
  • Photographic compositions in which silver complexes of the described compounds of the invention can be employed include any of those wherein a stable source of silver is desirable for physical development.
  • a photographic .element can be prepared containing a photosensitive coating containing a silver dye complex as a photosensitive moiety, and a silver complex of the described compounds of the invention. After exposure, the resulting latent image in the photognaphic element can be developed by contacting the photosensitive coating with a developer solution containing a silver halide developing agent in the presence of a development activator. The resulting developed image provides high resolution.
  • colloids can be used alone or in combination as vehicles or binding agents in photographic emulsions and elements employing compounds and silver complexes of compounds of the invention.
  • materials which are suitable are the natural and/ or synthetic binding materials generally employed for this purpose including, for example, gelatin, colloidal albumin, water soluble vinyl polymers, mono and polysaccharides, cellulose derivatives, proteins, water soluble polyacrylamides, polyvinyl pyrrolidine and the like.
  • the vehicle or binding agents can contain dispersed polymerized vinyl compounds, particularly those which increase the dimensional stability of photographic materials.
  • Suitable synthetic polymers of this type include Water insoluble polymers of alkylacrylates and rnethacrylates, as well as polymers of acrylic acid, sulfoalkylacrylates or methacrylates and the like.
  • Suitable photosensitive salts can be employed in combination with the described silver complexes of the compounds of the invention. These include the various photosensitive silver salts employed in the photographic art as well as photosensitive nonsilver compounds.
  • Suitable silver halides include any of the photographic silver halides as exemplified by silver bromide, silver iodide, silver chloride and mixed silver halide, such as silver chlorobrornide, silver bromoiodide and the like.
  • Silver halides used can be those which form latent images predominantly on the surface of the silver halides grains or those which form latent images inside the silver halide crystals as exemplified by U.S. Pat. 2,552,250, of Davy and Knott, issued Apr. 8, 1952, as well as direct positive emulsions such as those described in U.S. Pat. 2,541,472, of Kendall and Hill, issued Feb. 13, 1951.
  • the described compounds of the invention and silver complexes thereof can be employed in photographic layers coated on a wide variety of supports.
  • supports include any of those typically employed in the photographic art such as flexible supports including cellulose nitrate film, cellulose acetate film, poly (vinyl acetal) film, polystyrene film, poly (ethylene terephthalate) film, and related films or resinous materials, as well as glass, paper, metal and the like.
  • Supports such as paper supports, which are partially acetylated or coated with baryta or an olefin polymer, particularly a polymer of an olefin containing 2l0 carbon atoms such as polyethylene, polypropylene, ethylene-butene copolymers and the like give good results.
  • the photographic emulsions and elements With which compounds of the invention, as Well as silver complexes of compounds of the invention, can be employed can also contain additional addenda particularly those known to be beneficial in photographic materials of this nature.
  • they can contain stabilizers or antifoggants such as organic azoles, azaindenes, mercaptans, metal salts such as cadmium, lead, mercury, gold or other noble metal salts, spectral sensitizers such as the cyanines, merocyanines, complex (trinuclear) merocyanines, styryls, hemicyanines, speed increasing materials, such as polyalkylene glycols, onium salts and thioethers, plasticizers, coating aids such as anionic, nonionic and amphoteric surface active compounds and the like.
  • the photographic silver salt emulsions employed herein can also be chemically sensitized with compounds of the sulfur group such as sulfur, selenium and tellurium sensitizers, noble metal salts such as gold, or reduction sensitized with reducing agents or combinations of such materials.
  • the photographic elements can also contain fluorescent brighteners such as stilbenes, coumarins, benzothiazoles, benzoxazoles, imidazoles, etc.
  • various photographic elements can be employed containing the compounds of the invention or silver complexes of the compounds of the invention.
  • These can be nonspectrally sensitized emulsions such as X-ray type emulsions or they can be orthochromatic, panchromatic, infrared sensitive and the like emulsions containing spectral sensitizing dyes such as described in U.S. Pats. 2,526,- 632 and 2,503,776.
  • the compounds of the invention and silver complexes of compounds of the invention can be used in photographic emulsions and/ or receiver sheets intended for use in diffusion transfer processes which utilize undeveloped silver salts in the nonimage areas of the negative to form a positive by dissolving the undeveloped silver salts and precipitating them on a receiving layer in close proximity to the original silver salt emulsion layer.
  • diffusion transfer processes which utilize undeveloped silver salts in the nonimage areas of the negative to form a positive by dissolving the undeveloped silver salts and precipitating them on a receiving layer in close proximity to the original silver salt emulsion layer.
  • Such processes are described, for example, in U.S. Pat. 3,020,155 of Yackel et al., issued Feb. 6, 1962; U.S. Pats. 2,584,029 issued Jan. 29, 1952; 2,698,236 issued Dec. 28, 1954; and 2,543,181 issued Feb. 27, 1951 of E. H. Land and U.S. Pat. 2,352,014 of Rott, issued June 20, 1944.
  • Compounds of the invention and silver complexes of compounds of the invention can be used also in color transfer processes which utilize the diffusion transfer of developer, coupler or dye from the light-sensitive layer to a second layer such as described in U.S. Pat. 2,559,643 of Land, issued July 10, 1951; U.S. Pat. 2,698,798 issued Ian. 4, 1955; U.S. Pat. 2,756,142 of Yutzy issued July 24, 1956; U.S.
  • Compounds of the invention and silver complexes thereof can also be used in compositions and emulsions used in lithography, preparation of direct prints, or in colloid transfer processes as well as in elements used in monobath processing such as described in US. Pat. 2,875,048 of Haist et al., issued Feb. 24, 1959 and Webtype processing or elements therefor, such as described in US. Pat. 3,179,517 of Tregillus et 211., issued Apr. 20, 1965. They can also be used in so-called stabilization processing or elements therefor, such as processing an element containing an incorporated developer through an activator bath containing a thiocyanate stabilizer as described, for example, in British Pat. 1,061,892 issued Mar. 15, 1967 or in an article entitled Stabilization Processing of Films and Papers by H. D. Russell, E. C. Yackel and J. S. Bruce, PSA Journal, August 1950, pages 59-62.
  • EXAMPLE 1 In each of the following examples, 1 to 11, the following process is carried out: 0.4 mole of 2,5-dihydro-2,5- dimethoxy furan and 0.4-0.5 mole of the thiol compound corresponding to the radicals set out in Column A of Table I are mixed in 200 ml. of acetonitrile. 0.1 gram of p-toluenesulfonic acid monohydrate is added to the resulting mixture and the solution stirred at 25 C. until reaction is essentially complete, about 0.5 to 4 hours.
  • reaction mixture upon reaction completion is diluted with an equal volume of water, neutralized with sodium bicarbonate, extracted with ether, dried over magnesium sulfate and distilled to separate the desired product designated in Table I.
  • Reaction products from mercapto acids desig nated in Table I are stripped of solvent and the residues extracted with a dilute sodium hydroxide solution with the product being precipitated from solution by hydrochloric acid and recrystallized from acetonitrile.
  • EXAMPLE 12 The process set out in Example 1 is repeated with the exception that 2,S-dihydro-Z,5-dimethoxy-2-methylfuran and hexane thiol are employed as starting materials.
  • EXAMPLE 13 0.4 mole of 2,5-dihydro-2,5-methoxy furan and 0.4- 0.5 mole of the thiol compound corresponding to the radicals set out in Column A of Table II following are mixed in 200 ml. of acetonitrile containing 0.15 g. of maleic acid. The resulting solution is heated under reflux in a nitrogen atmosphere until reaction completion, about 4 to 6 hours. The resulting product is isolated as described in Examples 1-11. The desired product is set out in Table II.
  • Example 1 0.4 mole of 2,5-dihydro-2,5-dimethoxy furan and 0.4- 0.5 mole of propanethiol are mixed in 200 ml. of acetonitrile. The resulting solution is refluxed and air is bubbled slowly through the mixture for about /2 hour. Refluxing is then continued until reaction completion. The desired product is isolated as described in Example 1 and is recovered in significantly higher yields than Example 1.
  • EXAMPLE 21 A mixture of 2 g. of fumaric dialdehyde (see reference by K. Alder, H. Betzing, and H. Heinbeck, Ann. vol. 638, page 187 (1960)) and 2.07 g. of propanethiol is dissloved in 9.5 g. of acetonitrile. The resulting mixture is stirred at C. and 0.015 ml. of acetic acid is added. The mixture is heated under reflux until reaction completion. The desired product is isolated as described in Example 1.
  • EXAMPLE 22 A solution of 30.9 g. of mercaptoacetic acid and 0.12 g. of maleic acid is prepared in 350 ml, of benzene. The resulting solution is heated to reflux temperature and 43.7 g. of 2,5-dihydro-2,S-dirnethoxyfuran in ml. of benzene is added dropwise over a 2 hour period. A benzene methanol azeotrope results and is removed during reaction by fractional distillation. The reaction is continued until complete, about 9 hours, and the solvent evaporated. The residue is extracted with dilute aqueous sodium hydroxide. The desired product is precipitated with dilute hydrochloric acid and purified by recrystallization from methylcyclohexane to produce the desired (2-furylthio)acetic acid.
  • EXAMPLE 23 This example illustrates the process of the invention carried out in the absence of an acid catalyst.
  • Example 22 The procedure set out in Example 22 is repeated with the exception that 2,5-diacetoxy-2,S-dihydrofuran is employed in place of 2,5-dihydro-2,S-dimethoxyfuran as a starting material and no maleic acid is employed.
  • the described reaction is carried out in acetonitrile in place of benzene.
  • the desired product is recovered as set out in Example 22.
  • EXAMPLE 24 This illustrates preparation of the corresponding methyl ester of a-(2-furylthio)propionic acid.
  • Example 2 The procedure set out in Example 1 is repeated with the exception that 61.4 g. (0.047 mole) of 2,5-dihydro- 2,5-dimethoxyfuran and 50 g. (0.47 mole) of Z-mercaptopropionic acid are employed as starting materials. Analysis of the resulting product indicates a mixture of two products is obtained. Further analysis indicates that the mixture consists of ot-(2-furylthio)propionic acid and its corresponding methyl ester, boiling point 52 C. (0.25 mm. mercury pressure). Recrystallization of the product from ligroin produces alpha-(2-furylthio)propionic acid, melting point 64-65 C.
  • Example 1 is repeated employing o-mercaptobenzoic acid as the described thio starting material.
  • a 2-furyl thioether is produced as shown in Table I wherein n is 1 and R is o-HOCOC H having a melting point of 17017l C.
  • a method of preparing a 2-furyl thioether which comprises reacting in one step (A) an aliphatic or aromatic thiol represented by the formula:
  • R is a hydrocarbon radical containing 1 to 20 carbon atoms; monocarboxyalkyl and dicarboxyalkyl containing up to 20 carbon atoms; monocarboxyaryl containing up to 20 carbon atoms; alkanoyl containing up to 6 carbon atoms; or monohydroxyalkyl containing 2 to 6 carbon atoms; and represented by the formula:
  • R is a divalent hydrocarbon radical containing 1 to 20 carbon atoms; monocarboxyalkylene containing up to carbon atoms, dicarboxyalkylene containing up to 5 carbon atoms, monohydroxyalkylene containing 2 to 7 carbon atoms, monocarboxyphenylene and monocarboxyxylyene, with (B) (1) 2,S-diacetoxy-Z,S-dihydrofuran, or 2,5-dihydro-2,5-
  • a method of preparing a 2-furyl thioether as in claim 1 which comprises reacting said aliphatic or aromatic thiol with 2,5-dihydro-2,5-dimethoxyfuran.
  • a method as in claim 1 of preparing an ot-(2-furylthio) lower alkyl carboxylic acid which comprises reacting a 2,5-dihydro-2,5-dimethoxyfuran with an on lower alkyl mercapto carboxylic acid.
  • a method of preparing a 2-furyl thioether which comprises reacting in one step (A) an aliphatic or aromatice thiol of the formula:
  • R is alkyl containing 1 to 20 carbon atoms, phenyl, tolyl, xylyl, chlorophenyl, monocarboxyalkyl containing up to 20 carbon atoms, dicarboxyalkyl containing up to 20 carbon atoms, monocarboxyphenyl, monocarboxytolyl, alkanoyl containing 1 to 6 carbon atoms, benzoyl and monohydroxyalkyl containing 2 to 6 carbon atoms; and of the formula:
  • R is alkylene containing 1 to 6 carbon atoms, phenylene, xylyene, tolylene, chlorophenylene, monocarboxyalkylene containing up to 5 carbon atoms, dicarboxyalkylene containing up to 5 carbon atoms, monohydroxyalkylene containing 2 to 7 carbon atoms, monocarboxyphenylene and monocarboxyxylylene, with (B) (1) 2,5-diacetoxy-2,S-dihydrofuran,
  • R is alkylene containing 1 to 5 carbon atoms or phenylene.
  • a 2-furyl thioether as in claim 8 which is (2-furylthio)acetic acid.
  • a 2-furyl thioether as in claim 8 which is (2-furylthio) propionic acid.
  • a Z-furyl thioether which is (2-furylthio) succinic acid.
  • a 2-furyl thioether as in claim 8 which is (Z-furylthio) o-benzoic acid.

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