Three-dimensional structure of aryl methyl sulfoxides and α-halomethyl aryl sulfoxides

Abstract

1. Aryl methyl sulfoxides have a conformation close to an overlapping location of the S-O bond and the plane of the aromatic ring. 2. For the α-halomethyl aryl sulfoxides, we have established an equilibrium of three conformers with predominance of gauche forms. © 1982 Plenum Publishing Corporation.