Issue 17, 2001
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Chemical Communications

Nafion-H catalysed sulfonylation of aromatics with arene/alkenesulfonic acids for the preparation of sulfones1aDedicated to our colleague, Professor William P. Weber on the occasion of his sixtieth birthday.

George A. Olah,*a   Thomas Mathewa  and  G. K. Surya Prakash*a  

* Corresponding authors

a Loker Hydrocarbon Research Institute and Department of Chemistry, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA

Abstract

Synthesis of both symmetric and unsymmetric diaryl/aryl alkyl sulfones is easily achieved by Friedel–Crafts type sulfonylation of aromatics with suitable arene- or alkanesulfonic acids in the presence of Nafion-H, a perfluorinated resinsulfonic acid catalyst.

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DOI
https://doi.org/10.1039/B104603A
Article type
Communication
Submitted
21 May 2001
Accepted
17 Jul 2001
First published
16 Aug 2001

Chem. Commun., 2001, 1696-1697

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Nafion-H catalysed sulfonylation of aromatics with arene/alkenesulfonic acids for the preparation of sulfones

G. A. Olah, T. Mathew and G. K. Surya Prakash, Chem. Commun., 2001, 1696 DOI: 10.1039/B104603A

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