Properties and Reactions of Saturated Sulphides

Farkas, R. Bognar, M. M. Menyhart, A. K. Tamai, M. Bihari, and J. Tamas, Acta Chim. Acad. Sci. Hung., 1975, 84, 325. 

2-shift in the dehydration of rranj-l-hydroxy-2-ethylthio-l,2-dihydro-naphthalene, a simple model for the glutathione-naphthalene 1,2-oxide adduct (the so-called premercapturic acid which is receiving considerable attention because of the importance of arene oxides in metabolism), leads to ethyl 1-naphthyl sulphide via a cyclic sulphonium ion,  

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