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Process for labelling sulfur-containing compounds

US4900830A · kind A · utility

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Filing dateOct 28, 1987
Grant dateFeb 13, 1990
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Expiry dateOct 28, 2007

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  • Technology area (CPC C)Chemistry; Metallurgy
  • CPC primaryC07D497/20
  • WIPO fieldOrganic fine chemistry
  • WIPO sectorChemistry

Abstract

The invention thus provides a process for obtaining the preferential replacement by isotopes, of at least one of the hydrogen atoms selected from the group consisting of those attached to the .alpha.- or .alpha.'-carbon atoms in a compound containing the structural moiety (I) ##STR1## which comprises the steps of oxidizing the compound to the corresponding sulfoxide or sulfone which contains the corresponding structural moiety (II) ##STR2## wherein in the sulfoxide n is 1 and in the sulfone n is 2, effecting the isotopic replacement by a known method of said at least one hydrogen atom, and reducing the resultant isotope-labelled sulfoxide or sulfone to the correspondingly labelled compound containing the structural moiety (I).

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