Reduction of thiiranes to alkenes and alkanes

✍ Scribed by J.R. Schauder; J.N. Denis; A. Krief

• Book ID: 104217187
• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1983
• Tongue: French
• Weight: 196 KB
• Volume: 24
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0040-4039
• DOI: 10.1016/s0040-4039(00)81737-2

✦ Synopsis

Depahtmertt 06 Chemibxy 61, hue de BtruxeLLe~, B-5000 -Namwr (Be&Luml Thiiranes are valuable synthetic intermediates which are easily prepared from ePoxides 1 and bromohydrins 2 and which also can be synthesized with the concomitant formation of a new carbon-carbon bond 3,435 They are precursors of olefins 2,4,5,6 and , since the pioneering work of Barton 4 and 5 Kellogg

, they have been used as intermediates in the synthesis of the more strained ones.

Recently, we became interested in this functional group not only for its afore-mentioned application but also for its potential for direct reduction to alkanes.