Abstract
Dimethyldioxirane efficiently oxidises tricarbonylchromium(0) complexes of sulfenyl substituted arenes to tricarbonylchromium(0) complexes of sulfinyl substituted arenes: ortho substituted complexes are oxidised with high diastereoselectivity and determination of the relative stereochemistry of the oxidation products by inter alia an X-ray crystal structure analysis of tricarbonyl[eta6-1-(tert-butylsulfinyl)-2-methoxybenzene]chromium(0) (2b(x)) revealed that oxidations of methylsulfenyl and tert-butylsulfenyl substituted complexes proceed to give complementary diastereoisomers.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 1059-1062 |
| Number of pages | 4 |
| Journal | Journal of the Chemical Society, Chemical Communications |
| Issue number | 13 |
| Publication status | Published - 7 Jul 1993 |
Keywords
- CHROMIUM-TRICARBONYL COMPLEXES
- STEREOSELECTIVE SYNTHESIS
- ALDOL REACTION
- DIMETHYLDIOXIRANE
- SULFOXIDES
- DIOXIRANES
- CHEMISTRY
- OXIDATION