Role of methionine in the facilitated cleavage of aromatic ethers by methanesulphonic acid
- 1 January 1976
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) in Journal of the Chemical Society, Chemical Communications
- No. 22,p. 922-923
- https://doi.org/10.1039/c39760000922
Abstract
Aromatic ethers, such as anisole or phenetole, were cleaved smoothly with methanesulphonic acid in the presence of methionine, which acted as an alkyl acceptor to form methionine S-methyl (or ethyl)sulphonium salt.This publication has 2 references indexed in Scilit:
- Occurrence of N-alkylation during the acidolytic cleavage of urethane protecting groupsThe Journal of Organic Chemistry, 1976
- A synthetic peptide with morphine-like pharmacologic actionLife Sciences, 1975