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Aerobic oxidative esterification of benzyl alcohols with catalytic tetrabromomethane under visible light irradiation

T Nobuta, A Fujiya, S Hirashima, N Tada, T Miura…

Index: Nobuta, Tomoya; Fujiya, Akitoshi; Hirashima, Shin-Ichi; Tada, Norihiro; Miura, Tsuyoshi; Itoh, Akichika Tetrahedron Letters, 2012 , vol. 53, # 39 p. 5306 - 5308

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Abstract

We report a useful method for the facile synthesis of aromatic esters from benzyl alcohols with molecular oxygen and catalytic tetrabromomethane in alcohol under visible light irradiation with a fluorescent lamp. This is the first metal-free reaction using molecular oxygen as the terminal oxidant.

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