The Journal of organic chemistry

Regio-and Stereospecific Me3SiI-Promoted Intramolecular Displacement of Hydroxy Group by Sulfide. 2. Polyhydroxylated Thiepane Ring Contraction to Thiolane or …

V Cerè, F Peri, S Pollicino

Index: Cere, Vanda; Peri, Francesca; Pollicino, Salvatore Journal of Organic Chemistry, 1997 , vol. 62, # 24 p. 8572 - 8574

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Abstract

A well-known characteristic of medium-sized rings (8-11-membered) is their ability to undergo facile transannular reactions. 2 Evidence has been found that transannular interactions involving sulfide sulfur may already take place in seven-membered rings. 3 We have recently described1 a facile reaction which occurs, in high yield, in the presence of trimethylsilyl iodide, on δ and ϵ hydroxy or alkoxy sulfides by intramolecular displacement ...