Tetrahedron Letters

A novel method for the synthesis of aryl sulfones

RW Steensma, S Galabi, JR Tagat, SW McCombie

Index: Steensma, Ruo W.; Galabi, Sharen; Tagat, Jayaram R.; McCombie, Stuart W. Tetrahedron Letters, 2001 , vol. 42, # 12 p. 2281 - 2283

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Abstract

Download PDF Opens in a new window. Article suggestions will be shown in a dialog on return to ScienceDirect. ... Please enable JavaScript to use all the features on this page. ... New sulfones were produced from aryl trifluoromethyl sulfones and Grignard reagents in good to high yields. The advantage of this transformation over a previous method by which sulfones were prepared from sulfonyl fluorides and organometallic reagents is discussed.