Iron (III) chloride-catalyzed direct sulfonylation of alcohols with sodium arenesulfinates

Advanced Synthesis and Catalysis

Volumn 352, Issue 11-12, 2010, Pages 1861-1869

  Reddy, M Amarnath ^a   Reddy, P Surendra ^a   Sreedhar, B ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF CHEMICAL TECHNOLOGY   (India)

Author keywords

Benzylic alcohols; Chlorotrimethylsilane; Direct sulfonylation; Homoallylic alcohols; Sodium p toluenesulfinate

Indexed keywords

EID: 77956352965     PISSN: 16154150     EISSN: 16154169     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/adsc.200900905     Document Type: Article

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