Synthesis 1987; 1987(12): 1113-1115
DOI: 10.1055/s-1987-28188
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A Simple and Convenient Method for the Cleavage of Dithioacetals to the Correspondig Carbonyl Compounds

J. Cossy*
  • *Université de Reims Champagne-Ardenne, Laboratoire des réarrangements thermiques et Photochimiques, Unité de Recherche associée au CNRS UA 459, F-51062 Reims Cédex, France
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Publication Date:
20 August 2002 (online)

Carbonyl compounds were regenerated in high yields when corresponding diphenyl and diethyl dithioacetals were treated with a mixture of m-chloroperoxybenzoic acid/trifluoroacetic acid in dichloromethane.