Methoxymethyl phenyl sulfide has been used in the preparation of methoxymethyl phenyl sulfoxide.
Methoxymethyl phenyl sulfide can be prepared by condensing thiophenol with chloromethyl methyl ether under base catalysis or by condensing thiophenol with dimethoxymethane under boron trifluoride ether catalysis.
Meisenheimer rearrangement of methoxymethyl phenyl sulfoxide to methoxymethyl benzenesulfenate has been reported. Methoxymethyl phenyl sulfide undergoes solvent free permanganate oxidation to yield methoxymethyl phenyl sulfone.
