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Selective Aerobic Oxidation of Sulfides Using a Novel Palladium Complex as the Catalyst Precursor
Aldea, Raluca,Alper, Howard
, p. 8365 - 8366 (2007/10/02)
The palladium complex t2H)(μ-PBut2)>2, on exposure to oxygen in THF, generates an active catalytic system for the selective oxidation of sulfides to sulfoxides in 30-83percent yields.The process is stereospecific in the case of (+)-biotin-sulfoxide 4-nitrophenyl ester.
