Synlett 2016; 27(01): 80-82
DOI: 10.1055/s-0034-1378827
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© Georg Thieme Verlag Stuttgart · New York

Chemoselective Oxidation of Sulfides to Sulfoxides with Urea–Hydrogen Peroxide Complex Catalysed by Diselenide

Philip C. Bulman Page*
a   School of Chemistry, University of East Anglia, Norwich Research Park, Norwich, Norfolk NR4 7TJ, UK   Email: p.page@uea.ac.uk
,
Benjamin R. Buckley*
b   Chemistry Department, Loughborough University, Ashby Road, Loughborough, Leicestershire, LE11 3TU, UK
,
Claire Elliott
b   Chemistry Department, Loughborough University, Ashby Road, Loughborough, Leicestershire, LE11 3TU, UK
,
Yohan Chan
a   School of Chemistry, University of East Anglia, Norwich Research Park, Norwich, Norfolk NR4 7TJ, UK   Email: p.page@uea.ac.uk
,
Nicolas Dreyfus
c   Lilly Research Centre, Erl Wood Manor, Sunninghill Road, Windlesham, Surrey, KT 13 8JT, UK
,
Frank Marken
d   Department of Chemistry, University of Bath, Claverton Down, Bath BA2 7AY, UK
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Publication History

Received: 28 June 2015

Accepted after revision: 02 July 2015

Publication Date:
12 August 2015 (online)


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Dedicated to Prof Steven Victor Ley for the occasion of his 70th birthday.

Abstract

A highly selective catalytic oxidation system has been developed for the conversion of sulfides into the corresponding sulfoxides using urea–hydrogen peroxide as stoichiometric oxidant in the presence of a catalytic quantity of diphenyl diselenide.

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