Md. King et al., THERMAL-DECOMPOSITION OF ALLYLIC SULFINIC ACIDS - CONFIRMATION OF A RETRO-ENE MECHANISM, Journal of the Chemical Society, Chemical Communications, (24), 1993, pp. 1797-1798
The acidolysis of trialkyltin allylic sulfinates yields the correspond
ing sulfinic acids which undergo a first-order thermal decomposition w
ith gamma-syn substitution as predicted for a retro-ene mechanism.