Journal of the American Chemical Society

Multidentate Lewis acids. Reduction of thioketones in the presence of organomercury trifluoroacetates

JD Wuest, B Zacharie

Index: Wuest, James D.; Zacharie; Boulos Journal of the American Chemical Society, 1985 , vol. 107, # 21 p. 6121 - 6123

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Citation Number: 41

Abstract

-9 (R= H) 10-recovered in 26% yield in the form of the corresponding ketone. In addition, an insoluble yellow solid assigned oligomeric structure 10l2 could be separated by filtration. In sharp contrast, an analogous reduction of thioketone 5 in the presence of monodentate phenylmercuric trifluoroacetate (1. O equiu) I3 produced mainly sulfide 8 (71%) and minor amounts (17%) of bis (4-methoxypheny1) methane. Only in the presence of larger ...