Department of Chemistry, University of Cincinnati Cincinnati, Ohio 45221 ... An improved preparation and valuable new reactions of 3-oxotett-a- hydrothiophen-1,i -dioxide are described. ... Exploitation of small, polyfunctional molecules for the preparation of complex structures constitutes an active area of contemporary organic chemistry.' One such substance having great potential as a synthetic building block is 3-oxotetrahydrothiophen-1,l -dioxide 1 (OTTD). Unfortunately, in our ...
