Sulfur trioxide → 1-Docosene

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The sultones were the pure compounds derived by sulphur trioxide reaction with straight chain alpha-olefins, except that the delta-docosane sultone was a mixture mostly in the delta form and obtained by the sulphonation of docos-1-ene dissolved in light petroleum (b.p. 60°-80°) with sulphur trioxide vapour and nitrogen at 50° using a 20% molar excess sulphur trioxide for 1 hour and allowing the reaction mixture to age for 4 hours at 60° in order to allow isomerisation to delta-sultone, followed by filtration and recrystallisation of the sultone residue from methanol and finally from hexane.

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