Letters in Organic Chemistry

Author(s): Ramchand T. Pardasani, Saurabh Singh, Johnson George, Rahul Joshi and T. Vaidyanathan Sundar

DOI: 10.2174/1570178611310050010

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Transformation of Benzo[b]thiophene-2, 3-diones to Functionalised Diaryldisulfides

Page: [358 - 363] Pages: 6

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Abstract

A facile synthesis of symmetric diaryldisulfides in 55-75% yield by nucleophilic ring opening of benzo[b]thiophene-2,3-diones is described.

Keywords: Benzo[b]thiophene-2, 3-dione, diaryldisulfides, air-oxidation, ring opening, nucleophilic attack, crystallographic data.