Phosphorus and Sulfur and the Related Elements

C [sbnd] C Asymmetric Bond Formation Mediated by Optically Active Sulfoxides

M Cinquini

Index: Cinquini, Mauro Phosphorus and Sulfur and the Related Elements, 1985 , vol. 24, p. 39 - 72

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Abstract

Optically active sulfoxides have been known since a long time, but a general route to these compounds of high or complete enantiomeric purity was developed only in the early sixties via the Andersen synthesis 1-3, starting from easily available, diastereomerically pure sulfinate esters. Only in the last decade sulfoxides have been extensively used as chiral synthons in a variety of processes ... The peculiar features of the sulfinyl group, - ... By far the most general route to optically ...