Iranian Journal of Chemistry & Chemical Engineering (Sep 2005)

A Solvent Free Route to the Synthesis of Diaryl Sulfoxides

  • Abbas Shockravi,,
  • Esmael Rostami,
  • Masoomeh Zakeri

Journal volume & issue
Vol. 24, no. 3
pp. 47 – 52

Abstract

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The solvent free route for the synthesis of diaryl sulfoxides from arenes and thionyl chloride in the presence of Lewis acids such as aluminum chloride and ferric chloride on silica gel are described.

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