Ar. Hajipour, SOLID-STATE OXIDATION OF AROMATIC SULFIDES TO CORRESPONDING PHENYL AND P-TOLYL SULFOXIDES AND SULFONE USING OXONE(R), Indian journal of chemistry. Sect. B: organic chemistry, including medical chemistry, 36(11), 1997, pp. 1069-1070
Phenyl and p-tolyl sulfides 1 can be selectively oxidised to the corre
sponding sulfoxides 2 or sulfones 3 in solid state condition using oxo
ne. The advantages of this method are the use of cheap and safe reagen
ts, high yield and simple operating conditions.