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. 2007 May 10;9(10):1939-42.
doi: 10.1021/ol070500y. Epub 2007 Apr 17.

Thermal and photochemical racemization of chiral aromatic sulfoxides via the intermediacy of sulfoxide radical cations

Claudia Aurisicchio  1 , Enrico Baciocchi, Maria Francesca Gerini, Osvaldo Lanzalunga
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Thermal and photochemical racemization of chiral aromatic sulfoxides via the intermediacy of sulfoxide radical cations

Claudia Aurisicchio et al. Org Lett. .

Abstract

Efficient racemization of enantiomerically pure methyl aryl sulfoxides was obtained by N-methylquinolinium tetrafluoborate (NMQ+) sensitized photolysis and by one-electron oxidation catalyzed by tris(2,2'-bipyridyl)ruthenium(III) hexafluorophosphate.

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