Synthesis McMurray reaction

The conditions using 2,4,6-collidine/Tf20 and having the reaction warm from -78 °C to 25 °C were chosen mainly to avoid using more expensive reagents such as 2,6-di-r-butyl-4-methylpyridine or A-phenyl triflimide. (a) Stang, P. J. Hanack, M. C. Subramanian, L. R. Synthesis 1982, 85. (b) McMurray, J. E. Scott, W. J. Tetrahedron Lett. 1983,24,979. 

Reaction with mercurated nitrophenols McMurray and Trentham (1969) and Stefanini et al. (1972) have described the synthesis of several mercurated nitrophenols (Table 3.2). The spectra of these organomercurials show large changes in the visible region when thiols displace more weakly bound ligands from... 

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