Rapid reduction of sulfones to sulfides using LiAlH4–TiCl4
- 1 January 1994
- journal article
- Published by Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) in Journal of the Chemical Society, Chemical Communications
- No. 6,p. 761-762
- https://doi.org/10.1039/c39940000761
Abstract
A variety of sulfones are reduced rapidly to sulfides in high yields using lithium aluminium hydride–titanium tetrachloride in tetrahydrofuran.Keywords
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