Dimethyl sulfoxide/oxalyl chloride: A useful reagent for sulfenyletherification |
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| Authors: | Yang Gao Siwei Cheng Ting Zhang Rui Ding Yongguo Liu Baoguo Sun |
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| Affiliation: | Beijing Advanced Innovation Center for Food Nutrition and Human Health, Beijing Key Laboratory of Flavor Chemistry, Beijing Technology and Business University, Beijing, China |
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| Abstract: | A facile method for the sulfenyletherification of unsaturated alcohols using dimethyl sulfoxide/oxalyl chloride has been described in this article. Methanesulfenyl chloride is supposed to be the compound responsible for the sulfenyletherification, which is generated by the reaction of oxalyl chloride with 2 equivalents of dimethyl sulfoxide. The formation pathway of methanesulfenyl chloride is discussed based on the formation of cyclic acetals. |
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| Keywords: | Dimethyl sulfoxide methanesulfenyl chloride oxalyl chloride sulfenyletherification unsaturated alcohols |
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