The Journal of Organic Chemistry

Magnesium in methanol: substitute for sodium amalgam in desulfonylation reactions

AC Brown, LA Carpino

Index: Brown, Alan C.; Carpino, Louis A. Journal of Organic Chemistry, 1985 , vol. 50, # 10 p. 1749 - 1750

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Abstract

4 trans-1 (Ar= p-CH3C6H4) in this system. In the initial Diels-Alder reaction trans-1 proved far more reactive than the corresponding cis isomer2 and was therefore used exclusively in this study. Not wishing to be faced, in expectation of eventual large-scale work, with the tedious handling of massive quantities of toxic metallic mercury, we devised a simple method of desulfonylation involving treatment of the appropriate bis (su1fone) with an ...