European Journal of Organic Chemistry

A versatile synthesis of various substituted taurines from vicinal amino alcohols and aziridines

N Chen, W Jia, J Xu

Index: Chen, Ning; Jia, Weiyi; Xu, Jiaxi European Journal of Organic Chemistry, 2009 , # 33 p. 5841 - 5846

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Abstract

Abstract Taurine and structurally diverse substituted taurines have been synthesized by peroxyformic acid oxidation of the thiazolidine-2-thione intermediates generated from vicinal amino alcohols or aziridines and carbon disulfide. Thestereochemistry and mechanisms ...