“…7 8 9 There are lone pairs on the soft nucleophilic S atom and the hard nucleophilic O atom, and these lead to various synthetic transformations with organic sulfinic acids or their salts involved. Sharing of the S-lone pair with carbon electrophiles leads to sulfone products, 10 and reaction of the O-lone pair with carbon electrophiles leads to alkylsulfinates. 11] When the S-lone pair is shared with oxygen, the sulfinic acid is oxidized to sulfonic acid, 12 but when sulfinic acid reacts with oxyphilic elements, the oxygen atoms could be abstracted, generating reduction products.…”