Preparation of alcohols from sulfones and trialkylboranes

✍ Scribed by Célia Billaud; Jean-Philippe Goddard; Thierry Le Gall; Charles Mioskowski

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 2003
• Tongue: French
• Weight: 129 KB
• Volume: 44
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0040-4039
• DOI: 10.1016/s0040-4039(03)01025-6

✦ Synopsis

The reaction of sulfone anions with trialkylboranes followed by thermal isomerization of the obtained boron compounds in the presence of excess borane-methyl sulfide complex and by alkaline hydroperoxide oxidation yields primary alcohols.