convenient compounds to examine in order to make certain that the positions of the substituents in the methyl aryl sulfides (No. 1-7 in Table I) were not changed from those in the parent halides. Each of the sulfones prepared in the present work showed no mixed melting point depression with the mate-rials which were syntheaized by unambiguous methods. l1
[Hancock, James Reid; Hardstaff, William Rayne; Johns, Paul Alan; Langler, Richard Francis; Mantle, William Stanley Canadian Journal of Chemistry, 1983 , vol. 61, p. 1472 - 1480]