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p-tolyl sulfoxides in this tandemMichael addition/Horner olefination reaction leads to the corresponding optically active cyclic sulfoxides.In this way, a variety of optically active chromene, pyrrolizine, chinoline, and cyclopentene sulfoxideshave been efficiently prepared.