R. Cookson, P. Parsons
1978
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Journal of The Chemical Society, Chemical Communications
Abstract
P2S5 in methylene chloride containing pyridine reduces allenyl phenyl sulphoxides to sulphides; the difficult hydrolysis of the latter is eased by the introduction of a methoxy group into the benzene ring and this method then becomes a practicable synthesis of αβ-unsaturated ketones.