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Potassium bromate

See also: sodium bromate

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A photocatalyzed oxidative decarboxylation of oxamic acids enables a facile one-pot synthesis of urethanes. The process involves the formation of an isocyanate in situ from an oxamic acid under blue-light irradiation in the presence of ferrocene as a photocatalyst, 2-picolinic acid as a ligand, and potassium bromate as an oxidant. The method avoids the need for handling carcinogenic isocyanates.
G. Kurtay, J. Lusseau, F. Robert, Y. Landais, Synlett, 2024, 35, 342-346.