Synthesis 2006(2): 315-319  
DOI: 10.1055/s-2005-924767
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Facile Synthesis of 1,1-Disubstituted Taurines

Jiaxing Huang, Da-Ming Du, Jiaxi Xu*
Key Laboratory of Bioorganic Chemistry and Molecular Engineering of Ministry of Education, College of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering, Peking University, Beijing 100871, P. R. China
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Publication History

Received 23 June 2005
Publication Date:
21 December 2005 (online)

Abstract

A series of 1,1-disubstituted taurines was synthesized expeditiously from ketones via the Corey-Chaykovsky epoxidation with dimethylsulfonium methylide, episulfidation with potassium sulfocyanate, ring-opening reaction with ammonia in the presence of silver nitrate, followed by treatment with hydrogen sulfide and oxidation with performic acid.