A. Padmaja et al., CYCLOPROPANATION OF PHENYL STYRYL SULFONES WITH PHENACYL-SULFONIUM YLIDES UNDER PHASE-TRANSFER CATALYSIS, Collection of Czechoslovak Chemical Communications, 63(6), 1998, pp. 835-841
Cyclopropanation of substituted phenyl styryl sulfones 1 with dimethyl
sulfonium phenacvlides was carried out by two different methods (under
PTC catalysis with in situ generation of the ylides and by direct add
ition of ylides) to obtain a series of substituted 1-benzenesulfonyl-2
-benzoyl-3-phenylcyclopropanes 2. The PTC method was found to be more
facile and efficient. The spectral data of cyclopropanes 2 are discuss
ed.