Submitted by (0 1/03/03) Mieczyslaw Makosza* and Marek Surowiec ... Institute of Organic Chemistry, Polish Academy of Sciences ul. Kaspnaka 44/.52,01-224 Warsaw 42, POB 58, POLAND Fax +48(22)6326681; E-mail: icho-s@ icho.edu.pl ... For studies of the Ramberg-Backlund rearrangement and other reactions of carbanions of a-chloromethyl sulfones, multigram quantities of the simplest representative of these compounds, namely chloromethyl methyl sulfone (1) were ...