Strecker Sulfite Alkylation

A. Strecker, Ann. 148, 90 (1868).

Formation of alkyl sulfonates by reaction of alkyl halides with alkali or ammonium sulfites in aqueous solution in the presence of iodide:

A. Collmann, ibid. 101; W. Hemilian, ibid. 168, 145 (1873); Ber. 6, 562 (1873); CH 105845; CH 104907 (both 1925); F. C. Wagner, E. E. Reid, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 53, 3409 (1931); C. Weygand, Organic Preparations (New York, 1945) p 306; M. Quaedvlieg, Houben-Weyl 9, 372 (1955).