Synthesis and Reactivity of Ortho-Mercuriated and Ortho-Palladated Arylacetals and Cyclic and Acyclic Aryldithioacetals. New Examples of the Rearrangement of Acyclic Dithioacetal Aryl- to Dithioether Alkyl-Palladium Complexes

The arylmercurial [Hg{C6H3(CHO)2-2,5}Cl] (1) reacts with CH(OMe)3 or HS(CH2)2SH to give [Hg{C6H3{CH(OMe)2}2-2,5}Cl] (2) or [Hg(Ara)Cl] [Ara = C6H3{CH(SCH2CH2S)}2-2,5 (3a)], respectively. The mercur...