Hydroxyl-containing bis(sulfonates). Reaction of 1,4-dibromo-2,3-butanedione with water,methanol and sodium sulfite

Abstract

Sulfonates are well-known substances with a variety of applications, e.g. as surfactants. On the other hand, bis(sulfonates) bearing hydroxyl or keto group(s) in between the sulfonate groups can be used with or without further modification as starting materials for the preparation of new type of molecules capable to form either complexes or in general supramolecular structures. The synthesis of three hydroxyl-bearing bis(sulfonates), 2-hydroxypropane-1,3-bis(sodium sulfonate) 4, DL-2,3-dihydroxybutane-1,4-bis(sodium sulfonate) 8, and sodium 2,3,4-trihydroxy-1-sulfonate 7 (as by-product) via the Strecker sulfonation are described. Interestingly, under similar conditions, sulfonation of 1,4-dibromo-2,3-butanedione 9 was found to be very complicated and no pure product could be isolated, despite previously reported results on sulfonation of α-halogenated ketones in high yields. There are indications that SO₃^2- attacks at the carbonyl carbon of 9 followed by rearrangement and expulsion of SO₄^2-. 1,4-dibromo-2,3-butanedione 9, bearing two keto groups next to methylene groups, can potentially exist as enols or in the case of its solution in hydroxylic solvents in the form of hemiketals or geminal diols. This behavior of 9 when is dissolved in CDCl₃, CD₃OD and D₂O was studied by means of UV-Vis, ¹H and ¹³C NMR and the nature of the adducts formed was elucidated.

Keywords

The Strecker reaction bis(sodium sulfonates)1 4-dibromo-2 3-butanedione

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