The Journal of Organic Chemistry

Aromatic electrophilic substitution by Pummerer rearrangement intermediates

DK Bates

Index: Bates,D.K. Journal of Organic Chemistry, 1977 , vol. 42, # 21 p. 3452 - 3454

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Abstract

Sulfoxides have been developed extensively as synthetic reagents. The most common reactions are 6 elimination for the introduction of double bonds1 and [2, 3] sigmatropic rearrangement for allylic transposition of alcohols. 2 Sulfoxides have also been ingeniously used for benzo [b] thiophene synthesis, ie, the Thyagarajan rearrangement. 3 Replacement of the sulfoxide moiety with an N-oxide resulted in a new general synthesis of indoles.*