The Journal of organic chemistry

The regiochemistry of cyclization of α-sulfenyl-, α-sulfinyl-, and α-sulfonyl-5-hexenyl radicals: Procedures leading to regioselective syntheses of cyclic sulfones and …

EW Della, SD Graney

Index: Della, Ernest W.; Graney, Sean D. Organic Letters, 2002 , vol. 4, # 23 p. 4065 - 4067

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Abstract

A study of the cyclization of α-sulfenyl-, α-sulfinyl-, and α-sulfonyl-5-hexenyl and 5-methyl-5- hexenyl radicals reveals a unique contrast in the mode of ring closure of the radicals. In the case of the 5-hexenyl radicals, the sulfinyl-substituted species displays unexpected