Chemistry Letters

Reduction of Sulfoxides to Sulfides Mediated by Ferrocene and Trifluoroacetic Anhydride.

K Kobayashi, Y Kubota, N Furukawa

Index: Kobayashi, Kenji; Kubota, Yasuo; Furukawa, Naomichi Chemistry Letters, 2000 , # 4 p. 400 - 401

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Abstract

The reaction of diaryl sulfoxides with trifluoroacetic anhydride in the presence of ferrocene gives the corresponding sulfide. The reduction of sulfoxides composed of the ferrocene- spacer-methylsulfinyl triad system would proceed via a through-bond electron transfer rather than a through-space process.