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The invention of radical reactions. Part XVIII. Decarboxylative radical addition to arsenic, antimony, and bismuth phenylsulphides-a novel synthesis of nor-alcohols …

DHR Barton, D Bridon, SZ Zard

Index: Barton, Derek H. R.; Bridon, Dominique; Zard, Samir Z. Tetrahedron, 1989 , vol. 45, # 9 p. 2615 - 2626

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Abstract

Carbon centered radicals obtained by decarboxylative transformation of suitable thiohydroxamate esters react with group Va trisphenyl-sulphides to give intermediates of general formula RM (SPh) 2 (M= As, Sb, Bi). These react spontaneously with air to give the corresponding alcohols. This procedure is especially useful in the case where M= Sb. It is thus sufficient to stir the thiohydroxamate ester with tris (phenylthio)-antimony under air to ...