A novel electro-oxidative methoxylation of cyanomethyl sulphides

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Abstract
Electrolysis of alkylthioacetonitriles (1) in the presence of toluene-p-sulphonic acid as an electrolyte in methanol readily affords synthetically useful α-methoxylated sulphides (2) possibly by way of a Pummerer-type intermediate.