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Abstract
Optically active sulfoxides of low optical purity have been obtained by partial reduction of racemic sulfoxides using optically active lithium aluminum hydride-alcohol complexes as reducing agents. The steric course of the asymmetric reductions was found to be dependent on the composition of the complexes and on the configurations of optically active alcohols used. No configurational relationship between chirality at the sulfur and carbon atoms was observed.