Cathodic elimination of β-acetoxy phenyl sulfones in acetonitrile

Cryo-electrochemistry in tetrahydrofuran: The regioselective electrochemical reduction of a phenyl sulfone: Fast-scan cyclic voltammetry investigations

“…One of the most well-known examples of this is the Julia olefination, involving the reaction of an aryl sulfone with a carbonyl derivative followed by reductive elimination to give an alkene [19]. In electrochemistry, the reduction of alkyl-or aryl-sulfonylbenzenes was the subject of numerous investigations in both aqueous and non-aqueous media [22][23][24][25][26][27][28][29][30][31][32][33]. The mechanism of sulfone reactivity following electron transfer under electrochemical conditions was the subject of much research and debate [24,25,31,34,35].…”