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SUBMITTER: Vale JR
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6150673 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Feb
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
The Journal of organic chemistry 20180126 4
The autoxidative condensation of 2-aryl-2-lithio-1,3-dithianes is here reported. Treatment of 2-aryl-1,3-dithianes with n-BuLi in the absence of any electrophile leads to condensation of three molecules of 1,3-dithianes and formation of highly functionalized α-thioether ketones orthothioesters in 51-89% yields upon air exposure. The method was further expanded to benzaldehyde dithioacetals, affording corresponding orthothioesters and α-thioether ketones in 48-97% yields. The experimental results ...[more]