Thiourea dioxide (TUD): A robust organocatalyst for oxidation of sulfides to sulfoxides with TBHP under mild reaction conditions

Subodh Kumar, Sanny Verma, Suman L. Jain, Bir Sain

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Abstract

Thiourea dioxide (TUD) has been reported for the first time as a highly efficient and selective organocatalyst for the oxidation of sulfides to sulfoxides in high to excellent yields by using tert-butylhydroperoxide as oxidant under mild reaction conditions.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)3393-3396
Number of pages4
JournalTetrahedron Letters
Volume52
Issue number26
DOIs
StatePublished - 29 Jun 2011
Externally publishedYes

Bibliographical note

Funding Information:
We are thankful to the Director, IIP for his kind permission to publish these results. S.K. and S.V. acknowledge CSIR, New Delhi for the award of Research Fellowship. We acknowledge Dr. Basant Kumar and Mr. Sivakumar (analytical division) for providing the GCMS analysis of the samples.

Funding

We are thankful to the Director, IIP for his kind permission to publish these results. S.K. and S.V. acknowledge CSIR, New Delhi for the award of Research Fellowship. We acknowledge Dr. Basant Kumar and Mr. Sivakumar (analytical division) for providing the GCMS analysis of the samples.

FundersFunder number
Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, India

    Keywords

    • Organocatalyst
    • Oxidation
    • Sulfide
    • Thiourea dioxide

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