Conclusions
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The oxidation of dibutyl sulfide with DMSO at 160–175° is complicated by secondary processes and hardly any dibutyl sulfoxide is formed.
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Reaction conditions were found that made it possible to obtain certain dialkyl sulfoxides (dipropyl and dibutyl sulfoxides) in 70% yield.
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S. Searles and H. R. Hays, J. Org. Chem.,23, 2028 (1958).
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Translated from Izvestiya Akademii Nauk SSSR, Seriya Khimicheskaya, No. 7, pp. 1621–1622, July, 1976.
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Gusarova, N.K., Efremova, G.G., Amosova, S.V. et al. Oxidation of dialkyl sulfides with dimethyl sulfoxide. Russ Chem Bull 25, 1536–1537 (1976). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00920836
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00920836