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SUBMITTER: Ye C
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5797238 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Feb
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Ye Cong C Zhang Yanbin Y Ding Aishun A Hu Yong Y Guo Hao H
Scientific reports 20180202 1
We report herein a visible light sensitizer-catalyzed aerobic oxidation of thioethers, affording sulfoxides in good to excellent yields. The loading of the catalyst was as low as 0.1 mol%. The selectivity was excellent. Mechanism studies showed both singlet oxygen and superoxide radical anion were likely involved in this transformation. ...[more]