Published in Henry Rzepa's Blog
Author Henry Rzepa
The Swern oxidation[cite]10.1016/0040-4020(78)80197-5[/cite] is a class of “activated” dimethyl sulfoxide (DMSO) reaction in which the active species is a chlorodimethylsulfonium chloride salt.
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Oxidation of alcohols by “activated” dimethyl sulfoxide. a preparative, steric and mechanistic study
Published in Tetrahedron
Authors Kanji Omura, Daniel Swern