An environmentally benign benzylic oxidation catalyzed by hypervalent iodine intermediate in water

Autor: Jian Tao Hu, Jie Yan, Yuan Xu
Rok vydání: 2012
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Zdroj: Chinese Chemical Letters. 23:891-894
ISSN: 1001-8417
DOI: 10.1016/j.cclet.2012.06.002
Popis: An effective and environmentally benign benzylic oxidation for transition of alkylarenes into the corresponding carbonyl compounds was reported. Alkylarenes were mixed and stirred with potassium bromide, m -chloroperbenzoic acid and a catalytic amount of iodobenzene in water at 60 °C for several hours, a series of the corresponding carbonyl compounds was obtained in moderate to good yields. In the reaction, iodobenzene was first oxidized by m -chloroperbenzoic acid into the hypervalent iodine intermediate which then reacted with potassium bromide to form the key radical initiator for the benzylic oxidation.
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