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An improved protocol for the oxidative cleavage of alkynes, alkenes, and diols with recyclable Ru/C

V Kumar, VP Reddy, R Sridhar, B Srinivas, KR Rao

Index: Vijay Kumar; Prakash Reddy; Sridhar; Srinivas; Rama Rao Synlett, 2009 , # 5 p. 739 - 742

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Abstract

A scale-up reaction was also performed to check its viability. To phenylacetylene (100 mmol, 12 mL) taken in a 250 mL round-bottom flask was added Ru/C (1 mol%, 2 g) in a biphasic solvent of water-acetonitrile (1:1, 50 mL) followed by NaHCO 3 (2.5 equiv), Oxone (61.4 g, 100 mmol) at room temperature. Workup and extraction after 6.5 hours gave benzoic acid in (89% yield, 10.8 g). Further we were interested in the catalyst recyclability. We have performed ...