Exploring the reactivity of homoleptic organozincs towards SO2: synthesis and structure of a homologous series of organozinc sulfinates

Systematic studies on the insertion of SO2 into the Zn-C bond were performed. The direct trapping of a series of R2Zn compounds with SO2 provided a homologous series of diverse [(RSO2)ZnR] species that can be hardly obtained with alternative methods.