Herein we report a mild, facile method for the preparation of 1,4-keto-sulfonates and sulfones on water. Further synthetic manipulations can result in products that are not readily accessed by hydroacylation of electron rich alkenes.

Acetylenic sulfones attached to solid supports by means of ester linkers were employed in a variety of cyclization and cycloaddition reactions, followed by cleavage of the products from the resin by ester hydrolysis or reductive desulfonylation.

A range of highly enantioenriched primary allylic amines underwent palladium-catalyzed oxidative coupling with sulfonyl hydrazides open to air at room temperature to give structurally diverse allylic sulfones in moderate to excellent yields with excellent retention of ee.

This review summarizes recent developments in photocatalyzed carbon-sulfur bond formation. General concepts, synthetic strategies and the substrate scope of reactions yielding thiols, disulfides, sulfoxides, sulfones and other organosulfur compounds are discussed together with the proposed mechanistic pathways.

The development of the homologous Julia-Kocienski reaction has led to the discovery of two new reaction modes of epoxides with sulfones. These pathways allow rapid and direct access to a range of γ-sultones and γ-sultines.

Alkyl aryl sulfones were prepared in high yields via the reaction of N-arylsulfonyl hydroxylamines with electron-deficient alkenes. These reactions have the advantages of simplicity, easily available starting materials and mild reaction conditions.

We report a method for the synthesis of α-diazo-β-keto esters, phosphonates and sulfones via acylation of corresponding diazomethyl anions with N-acylbenzotriazoles. The N-o-amino-acylbenzotriazoles exhibited an unprecedented transphosphorylation reaction leading to diazoacetyl phenylphosphoramidates.

Asymmetric conjugate additions of branched aldehydes to vinyl sulfones promoted by sulfonamide organocatalyst 6 or 7 have been developed, allowing facile synthesis of the corresponding adducts with all-carbon quaternary stereocenters in excellent yields with up to 95% ee.

The Plasmodium falciparum cysteine proteases falcipain-2 and falcipain-3 appear to be required for hemoglobin hydrolysis by intraerythrocytic malaria parasites. Previous studies showed that peptidyl vinyl sulfone inhibitors of falcipain-2 blocked the development of P. falciparum in culture and exerted antimalarial effects in vivo. We now report the structure-activity relationships for inhibitio...

A clinical evaluation study of diasone, diaminodiphenyl sulfone (DDS) and dihydrostreptomycin (DHSM) separately, conducted in four institutions including Westfort, has been reported by Doull (2). The present evaluation study of the effects of isonicotinic acid hydrazide (isoniazid, INH) and of streptohydrazid on lepromatous leprosy, continued over a period of two years from September 1953 to Se...