July 30, 2014, Lorena Herkert et al., Gold(I)-Catalysed Direct Thioetherifications Using Allylic Alcohols: an Experimental and Computational Study, Next, a competing functional group (OH in 4-mercaptophenol 2 i ) was investigated, as phenols have been shown to form chromans or Friedel–Crafts allylation products under gold-catalysis with allylic alcohols.11a, 17 Pleasingly, the reaction proceeds chemoselectively at the thiophenol site, although the yield is somewhat lower than with other thiophenols (49 %, entry 9).
