Bulletin of the Chemical Society of Japan

Reduction of Sulfonic Acids and Related Organosulfur Compounds with Triphenylphosphine–Iodine System

S Oae, H Togo

Index: Oae, Shigeru; Togo, Hideo Bulletin of the Chemical Society of Japan, 1983 , vol. 56, # 12 p. 3802 - 3812

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Citation Number: 67

Abstract

Arenesulfonic acids, their sodium salts, and alkyl arenesulfonates can be reduced readily to the corresponding arenethiols quantitatively by treatment with a mixture of triphenylphosphine and a catalytic amount of iodine, while alkanesulfonic acids, sulfinic acids, disulfides, thiosulfonic testers, and sulfonates are also readily reduced to the corresponding thiols similarly. Upon treatment with a mixture of triphenylphosphine and ...