The Preparation of β-Keto Sulfones by the Claisen Condensation1

WE Truce, RH Knospe

Index: Truce; Knospe Journal of the American Chemical Society, 1955 , vol. 77, p. 5063,5067

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Abstract

X convenient method of synthesis for several p-keto sulfones was desired in connection with an investigation of the acidity of these compo~ nds.~ Since the Claisen condensation of keto esters has been employed to prepare various acyclic4 and c~ clic~-~ 0-diketones, it was thought that the analogous condensation of sulfone esters might prove useful. Reactions of this type, Le., between a carbalkoxy group and a carbanion stabilized solely by a sulfone ...