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The title tetrahydrothiophene is synthesized by a three‐step procedure involving a known epoxidation step of 1‐hepten‐4‐ol and subsequent mesylation and acetoxylation‐ring closing reactions.

4-Acetoxy-2-propyltetrahydrothiophene was synthesised from 1-hepten-4-ol by a three-step route involving epoxidation and mesylation to 1,2-epoxy-4-heptyl mesylate and then reaction with thioacetate. An acetoxylated cyclic product was formed instead of the expected thioacetate, and a mechanism for its formation using an intramolecular transesterification is proposed.