Related Experiment Video
Updated: Jun 11, 2025

Broth Microdilution In Vitro Screening: An Easy and Fast Method to Detect New Antifungal Compounds
Published on: February 14, 2018
Synthesis of dithioacetals via nucleophilic substitution and their antifungal activity evaluation
Jiaqing Shao1, Yeping Bian2, Qian Wang1
1Jiangsu Co-Innovation Center of Efficient Processing and Utilization of Forest Resources, College of Chemical Engineering, Nanjing Forestry University, Nanjing 210037, China. hanjl@njfu.edu.cn.
Abstract:
A novel dual nucleophilic substitution reaction of dichloromethane with thiols has been developed, which affords dithioacetals in up to 96% yields. This dual substitution reaction with two different nucleophiles is also successfully developed with α-acyloxy sulfides as the product. In addition, in vitro antifungal activity tests against L. theobromae disclose that these α-acyloxy sulfides exhibit excellent antifungal activity with an inhibition rate up to 100 ± 0%. This reaction provides efficient access to potential bioactive dithioacetals from readily available starting materials.
Related Concept Videos
Nucleophilic Aromatic Substitution of Aryldiazonium Salts: Aromatic SN1
In the Sandmeyer reaction, for example, the diazonio group is replaced by a chloro, bromo,...
Preparation of Alcohols via Substitution Reactions
Alcohols can be synthesized from alkyl halides via nucleophilic substitution reactions. The highly polar carbon-halogen bond in the substrate makes halide a good leaving group. The hydroxide ion or water can act as a nucleophile to take the place of halide and form an alcohol. The substitution reactions occur via two different reaction pathways, SN1 or SN2, depending on the nature of carbon attached to the halide.
Primary alcohols are synthesized from primary alkyl halides, and the...
Diazonium Group Substitution: –OH and –H
Diazonium Group Substitution with Halogens and Cyanide: Sandmeyer and Schiemann Reactions
Nucleophilic Aromatic Substitution: Addition–Elimination (SNAr)
The reaction begins with an attack of the nucleophile on the carbon that holds the leaving group. This results in the delocalization of the π electrons over the ring carbons. The resonance interaction between...
Nucleophilic Aromatic Substitution: Elimination–Addition

