The Journal of Organic Chemistry

(. alpha.-Haloalkyl) phosphonium salts and sulfur nucleophiles: a new type of reaction mechanism

R Galli

Index: Galli, Remo Journal of Organic Chemistry, 1987 , vol. 52, # 24 p. 5349 - 5356

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Abstract

Reaction between (a-haloalky1) phosphonium salta and some sulfur nucleophiles leads to the substitution product Ph3P+ CH2SR X-. Evidence is presented that this substitution is not a normal SN2 reaction and that it occurs through formation of a phosphonium ylide and a