Abstract
Treatment of sulfoxides with the HfCl4/Zn system in acetonitrile at room temperature has been shown to provide the corresponding sulfides in high yields. This new methodology is highly chemoselective, tolerating several functional groups such as –Br, –Cl, –OCH3, –CHO and double bond.
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Funding
This work was financially supported by Korea University.