Chemistry Letters

A simple and convenient manganese dioxide oxidation of benzyl halides to aromatic aldehydes under neutral condition

S Goswami, S Jana, S Dey, AK Adak

Index: Goswami, Shyamaprosad; Jana, Subrata; Dey, Swapan; Adak, Avijit Kumar Chemistry Letters, 2005 , vol. 34, # 2 p. 194 - 195

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Abstract

Since the discovery of the Sommelet reaction1 in 1913, the oxidation of benzyl halides to the carbonyl compounds repre- sents one of the important fundamental reactions in organic syn- thesis.2 Several other reaction procedures have been reported for this transformation which include the Hass Bender reaction,3 pyridine followed by p-nitrosodimethylaniline,4 dimethyl sulf- oxide,5 dimethylselenoxide-dipotassium hydrogen phosphate,6 bis( ...