Sulfoxidation of thioethers using titanium silicate molecular sieve catalysts

R. Santhosh Reddy, J. Sudhakar Reddy, Rajiv Kumar, Pradeep Kumar

Journal of the Chemical Society Chemical Communications · 1992 · 98 citations · 5 references

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Abstract

Titanium silicate molecular sieves having MEL (TS-2) or MFI (TS-1) topology efficiently catalyse the oxidation of various thioethers to the corresponding sulfoxides and sulfones using dilute hydrogen peroxide (26 wt%) as an oxidising agent.

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