Bulletin of the Chemical Society of Japan

Selective Synthesis of Sulfoxides and Sulfones by Methyltrioxorhenium-Catalyzed Oxidation of Sulfides with Hydrogen Peroxide.

S Yamazaki

Index: Yamazaki, Shigekazu Bulletin of the Chemical Society of Japan, 1996 , vol. 69, # 10 p. 2955 - 2959

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Citation Number: 84

Abstract

Methyltrioxorhenium-catalyzed oxidation of sulfides with hydrogen peroxide in ethanol has been found to be an efficient catalytic system for the selective formation of sulfoxides and sulfones. The oxidation using an equimolar amount of hydrogen peroxide afforded sulfoxides in excellent yield, and the use of two molar amounts of hydrogen peroxide gave sulfones quantitatively. Strongly deactivated sulfide, bis (4-nitrophenyl) sulfide, was ...