European Journal of Organic Chemistry

Enantioselective Synthesis of Benzyl tert??Butyl Sulfoxides

MK Syed, M Casey

Index: Syed, Majid Khalil; Casey, Mike European Journal of Organic Chemistry, 2011 , # 35 p. 7207 - 7214

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Abstract

Abstract Enantiomerically pure benzyl sulfoxides are effective tools for the formation of new C–C bonds with control of configuration at new stereogenic centres. The reaction of enantioenriched tert-butyl tert-butanethiosulfinate with benzyllithium derivatives, obtained by deprotonation of the corresponding toluene derivatives, gave a wide variety of benzyl tert- butyl sulfoxides with complete inversion of configuration. The benzyl sulfoxides were ...