Metal-Free Synthesis of Diaryl Sulfones from Arylsulfinic Acid Salts and Diaryliodonium Salts
Natalie Umierski and Georg Manolikakes*
*Department of Organic Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Goethe
University Frankfurt, Frankfurt am Main, Germany, Email: g.manolikakes
chemie.uni-frankfurt.de
N. Umierski, G. Manolikakes, Org. Lett., 2013, 15, 188-191.
DOI: 10.1021/ol303248h
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Abstract
An efficient and transition-metal-free synthesis of diaryl sulfones in high yields from arylsulfinic acid salts and diaryliodonium salts tolerates a range of functional groups and offers high chemoselectivity if unsymmetrical diaryliodonium salts are used.
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ID: J54-Y2013-0080
