Um. Dzhemilev et al., SYNTHESIS AND TRANSFORMATIONS OF METALLOCYCLES .14. STEREOSELECTIVE SYNTHESIS OF TRANS-3,4-DIALKYLTETRAHYDROTHIOPHENES, Russian chemical bulletin, 43(2), 1994, pp. 255-257
A one-pot stereoselective method was developed for the synthesis of tr
ans-3,4-dialkyltetrahydrothiophenes from alpha-olefins, EtAlCl(2), met
allic magnesium, and elementary sulfur (S-8) in the presence of cataly
tic amounts of Cp(2)ZrCl(2).