The chemistry of sulfenate anions will be the topic of this lecture.  These highly reactive intermediates undergo a variety of reactions, including metal catalyzed arylation reactions to generate sulfoxides.  The enantioselective version of this reaction will be presented.  Furthermore, we have demonstrated for the first time that sulfenate anions can act as catalysts and promote novel reactions such as the dimerization of benzyl chlorides to afford trans-stilbenes and the cross-coupling of aldehydes with benzyl chlorides to give alkynes.  This is the first example of the catalytic formation of all three bonds of alkynes. <br/>

Metal and non-metal catalyzed reactions with sulfenate anions

251st National Meeting (2016)

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