Readily prepared 3-chloro-1-(phenylthio)propene, a versatile three-carbon annulating agent

Taoping Liu; Xiaoming Zhao; Long Lu; Theodore Cohen

doi:10.1021/ol901818j

Readily prepared 3-chloro-1-(phenylthio)propene, a versatile three-carbon annulating agent

Org Lett. 2009 Oct 15;11(20):4576-9. doi: 10.1021/ol901818j.

Authors

Taoping Liu¹, Xiaoming Zhao, Long Lu, Theodore Cohen

Affiliation

¹ Key Laboratory of Organofluorine Chemistry, Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 354 Fenglin Road, Shanghai 200032, P. R. China.

PMID: 19772307
DOI: 10.1021/ol901818j

Abstract

3-Chloro-1-(phenylthio)propene, simply generated by chlorination of commercial allyl phenyl sulfide, is a versatile 3-carbon annulating agent for ketones and phenols.