Vinyl sulphones, reductive desulphonylation

Details of the conditions used in these reductions are discussed, especially the fact that this is apparently the first example in which the stereochemical aspects of an electrochemical desulphonylation reaction on a complex molecule have been examined. It is likely that further work will be profitable, given suitable substituents on a molecule, since sulphones (especially vinyl and aryl sulphones) should be good candidates for this type of reduction. 

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