Ethynyl p-tolyl sulphone as an acetylene equivalent in Diels–Alder reactions

1 January 1980

journal article
research article
Published by Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) in Journal of the Chemical Society, Chemical Communications

No. 13,p. 639-640
https://doi.org/10.1039/c39800000639

Abstract

Ethynyl p-tolyl sulphone undergoes addition to a number of conjugated dienes and the resulting adducts can be reduced to the corresponding cyclohexa-1,4-dienes using sodium amalgam.

Keywords

ACETYLENE
SODIUM
TOLYL SULPHONE
CONJUGATED
CORRESPONDING
ALDER
CYCLOHEXA
DIELS