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Convenient Ambient Temperature Generation of Sulfonyl Radicals

Kerry Gilmore A , Brian Gold A , Ronald J. Clark A and Igor V. Alabugin A B
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A Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL 32306, USA.

B Corresponding author. Email: alabugin@chem.fsu.edu

Australian Journal of Chemistry 66(3) 336-340 https://doi.org/10.1071/CH12499
Submitted: 7 November 2012  Accepted: 12 December 2012   Published: 16 January 2013

Abstract

Presented herein is a novel method for the efficient, ambient temperature generation of sulfonyl radicals from aryl and alkyl sulfonylbromides upon autoxidation of triethylborane (Et3B). The resultant radicals were regioselectively trapped via addition to terminal alkynes, generating a secondary vinyl radical that selectively abstracts a Br atom from RSO2Br, yielding the (E)-bromo vinylsulfones. Sensitivity towards Lewis basic groups was observed, presumably due to the disruptive coordination to Et3B before atom-transfer.


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