Journal of the American Chemical Society

The Metalation of Dialkyl Sulfones

WE Truce, KR Buser

Index: Truce; Buser Journal of the American Chemical Society, 1954 , vol. 76, p. 3577

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Citation Number: 16

Abstract

Dimethyl sulfone (I) was monometalated by ethylmagnesium bromide, methylmagnesium iodide and n-butyllithium; the resulting organometallic compounds were added to benzaldehyde and benzophenone. With the intermediate methanesulfonylmethylmagnesium bromide (11), superior yields were obtained using anisole rather than benzene as the solvent. Tetrahydrothiophene-1, l-dioxide was ...