The Mechanism of Formation of Olefins by the Reaction of Sodium Hydroxide with α-Halo Sulfones1

FG Bordwell, GD Cooper

Index: Bordwell; Cooper Journal of the American Chemical Society, 1951 , vol. 73, p. 5184

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Abstract

Steps (1) and (2) of this formulation gain credence by the recent evidence for cyclopropanone intermediates in a somewhat analogous reaction of a-halo ketones with bases, the Faworskii rearrangement.* Ramberg and Backland2 measured the rate of release of bromide ion from a-bromoethyl ethyl sulfone in the presence of a large excess of 1 or 2 N