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. 2013 Jun;8(6):1042-7.
doi: 10.1038/nprot.2013.059. Epub 2013 May 2.

Preparation and purification of zinc sulfinate reagents for drug discovery

Fionn O'Hara  1 , Ryan D Baxter, Alexander G O'Brien, Michael R Collins, Janice A Dixon, Yuta Fujiwara, Yoshihiro Ishihara, Phil S Baran
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Preparation and purification of zinc sulfinate reagents for drug discovery

Fionn O'Hara et al. Nat Protoc. 2013 Jun.

Abstract

The present protocol details the synthesis of zinc bis(alkanesulfinate)s that can be used as general reagents for the formation of radical species. The zinc sulfinates described herein are generated from the corresponding sulfonyl chlorides by treatment with zinc dust. The products may be used crude, or a simple purification procedure may be performed to minimize incorporation of water and zinc chloride. Although the synthesis of the zinc sulfinate salts can generally be completed within 3 h, workup can take up to 24 h and purification can take up to 3 h. Following the steps in this protocol would enable the user to generate a small toolkit of zinc sulfinate reagents over the course of 1 week.

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The authors declare no competing financial interests.

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Heterocycle functionalization using recently developed and commercialized zinc bis(alkanesulphinate) reagents.
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The focus of this article: the synthesis of zinc bis(alkanesulphinate) reagents.
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