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TETRAHEDRON LETTERS
Volume 45, Issue 25, Pages 4841-4845Publisher
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.tetlet.2004.04.162
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catalytic; electrogenerated base; bis addition; allyl vinyl sulfone; phenyl vinyl sulfone; cyclization
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Highly efficient, electrocatalytic additions of allyl phenyl sulfone to a variety of vinyl sulfones have been accomplished. The additions are catalyzed by electrogenerated bases derived from the reactant itself, and furnish 90-94% yields of highly polar molecules in which 1 mol of allyl phenyl sulfone has added consecutively, selectively, and in a linear addition mode to 2 mol of the vinyl sulfone. Essentially no products are observed which incorporate other than 2 mol of the vinyl sulfone. Ail addition to a difunctional alkene, divinylsulfone, yields a novel cyclization product, albeit in more moderate yield (41%). The use of tetraalkyl-ammonium salts. as opposed to lithium salts, as electrolytes has been found to provide electrogenerated bases of especially high reactivity. (C) 2004 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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