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The opposite relative configuration to that observed in the deuteration of de-protonated sulfoxides of type 2 results from the radical deuteration of sulfinylated benzyl radicals of type 1 in the presence of bulky Lewis acids (methylaluminum diphenoxide).
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Renaud et al. (1994) studied this question.
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