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A mild and efficient method for the protection of carbonyl compounds as oxathiolanes, dithiolanes and dithianes catalyzed by molybdenyl acetylacetonate

KK Rana, C Guin, S Jana, SC Roy

Index: Rana, Kalyan Kumar; Guin, Chandrani; Jana, Samaresh; Roy, Subhas Chandra Tetrahedron Letters, 2003 , vol. 44, # 47 p. 8597 - 8599

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Abstract

Carbonyl compounds have been successfully converted into their corresponding oxathiolane, dithiolane and dithiane derivatives in excellent yields with 2-mercaptoethanol, 1, 2-ethanedithiol and 1, 3-propanedithiol using a catalytic amount of molybdenyl acetylacetonate.