
%0 Journal Article
%A Feutrill, GI 
%A Mirrington, RN 
%T Reactions with thioethoxide ion in dimethylformamide. II. O-Alkyl cleavage of methylene ethers, methyl esters, and aryloxyacetates
%J Australian Journal of Chemistry
%D 1972/08/01
%V 25
%N 8
%P 1731-1735
%K 
%R https://doi.org/10.1071/CH9721731
%U https://www.publish.csiro.au/paper/CH9721731 
%X Reaction of 1,3-benzodioxole with sodium thioethoxide in DMF gave a good yield of ethyl o-hydroxyphenoxymethyl sulphide (3), which was converted into catechol nearly quantitatively by acid treatment. The same reagent converted methyl p-anisate into p-hydroxybenzoic acid, and methyl p-chlorophenoxyacetate to p-chlorophenol in good yield, indicating its usefulness in cleaving methyl esters and aryloxyacetates respectively. 
