L. Djakovitch et al., REARRANGEMENTS OF PHENYLTHIO SUBSTITUTED 1,N-DIOLS WITH TOLUENE-P-SULFONIC ACID AND WITH TOLUENE-P-SULFONYL CHLORIDE, Tetrahedron letters, 36(10), 1995, pp. 1723-1726
Rearrangement of a series of 1,n diols (n=2 to 12), one OH group havin
g an adjacent PhS group, under the two sets of conditions in the title
, gives single compounds in high yield drawn from four possible classe
s of product The effects of chain length help in our understanding of
the mechanism of the rearrangements.