Ap. Avdeenko et Sa. Zhukova, Reaction of polyhalo semiquinoid structures originating from 4-aroyl(arylsulfonyl)oximino-2,5-cyclohexadiene-1-ones with arylsulfinic acids, RUSS J ORG, 37(2), 2001, pp. 281-283
Stable semiquinoid structures, 4-aroyl(arylsulfonyl)oximino-2,6-dimethyl-5,
6-dichloro-2-cyclohexen-1-ones, do not react with dialkyl phosphites, alcoh
ols, tosylhydrazine, p-toluidine, and hydrazoic acid. In reactions with ary
lsulfinic acids occurs a nucleophilic substitution of chlorine at the sp(3)
-hybridized C-5 carbon in the minor Z-isomer yielding 4-aroyl(arylsulfonyl)
oximino-5-arylsulfonyl-2,6-dimethyl-6-chloro-2-cyclohexen-1-ones.