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Synthesis of carboxylic acids by oxidation of aldehydes
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Highly efficient, mild, and simple protocols allow the oxidation of aldehydes
to carboxylic acids and esters utilizing Oxone as the sole oxidant. These
reactions may prove to be valuable alternatives to traditional
metal-mediated oxidations.
B. R. Travis, M. Sivakumar, G. O. Hollist, B. Borhan, Org. Lett., 2003,
5, 1031-1034.
A facile and quantitative preparation of carboxylic acids by a pyridinium
chlorochromate (PCC) catalyzed (2 mol%) oxidation of primary alcohols and
aldehydes using 2.2 equivalents and 1.1 equivalents of H5IO6, respectively, in
acetonitrile is described here.
M. Hunsen,
Synthesis, 2005, 2487-2490.
Sodium perborate in acetic acid is an effective reagent for the oxidation of
aromatic aldehydes to carboxylic acids, iodoarenes to (diacetoxyiodo)arenes,
azines to N-oxides, and various sulphur heterocycles to S,S-dioxides.
Nitriles undergo smooth oxidative hydration to amides when aqueous methanol
is employed as solvent.
A. McKillop, D. Kemp, Tetrahedron, 1989,
45, 3299-3306.
A convenient and efficient oxidation of hydroxylated and methoxylated
benzaldehydes and acetophenones to the corresponding phenols uses hydrogen
peroxide and methyltrioxorhenium as catalyst in ionic liquids [bmim]BF4
and [bmim]PF6.
R. Bernini, A. Coratti, G. Provenzano, G. Fabrizi, D. Tofani, Tetrahedron, 2005,
61, 1821-1825.
