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Preparation of alcohols from sulfones and trialkylboranes

C Billaud, JP Goddard, T Le Gall, C Mioskowski

Index: Billaud, Celia; Goddard, Jean-Philippe; Le Gall, Thierry; Mioskowski, Charles Tetrahedron Letters, 2003 , vol. 44, # 24 p. 4451 - 4454

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Abstract

In 1981, Uguen reported the successful reaction of anions of sulfones substituted by a primary alkyl or allylic group with trialkylboranes, for the preparation of secondary alcohols. 5 This is of great interest since various sulfones can be easily prepared. 6 In order to broaden further the scope of this method, we envisioned to combine it with the thermal isomerization of organoboranes, 2., , and which allows a boron atom to migrate along a chain of carbon ...